By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
President Muhammadu Buhari has played host to the winner of the just concluded Edo state governorship election, Governor Godwin Obaseki, and his deputy, Philip Shuabu, at the State House, Aso Villa, Abuja.
According to a tweet by a social media aide to the president, Lauretta Onochie, Obaseki and his deputy where at the villa for a thnk you vist to the president over the Edo governorship election.
Obaseki’s victory, it was believed, was made possible because the president, remained neutral in the election.
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Obaseki and Shuabu were declared winner of the September 19 governorship election in which he contested under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a party he joined few weeks to the election when he was barred from contesting the governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He had visited the President shortly after the APC disqualified him from contesting the election, a move some analysts say was a strategic move to make the president not to unleash the federal might against his re-election.
The thank you visit, some analysts think, may also be a continuation of the strategy because the war between he and Oshiomhole is not yet over. The Oshiomhole’s camp controls the larger number in the state House of Assembly, and could use that to undermine Obaseki or outrightly get him sacked as governor.
