By Valentine Amanze
The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State does not seem to end soon.
The Screening Committee set up by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to screen candidates to fly the flag of the party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State on Wednesday, June 10, 2020, failed to screen the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, June 10, 2020.
Besides, it was not known, at the press time, whether other governorship aspirants of the party were screened by the committee.
But the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said that the governor had arrived at the National Secretariat of the party early for screening but the committee was not ready.
His words: “The governor arrived early but the screening committee was not ready. He was given the options to either wait for one hour or if he had an appointment to keep, he could go and call them to know if they were ready.
“The governor, who had a Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) meeting, went for the meeting and called when he was done, but the members of the screening committee did not pick their phones.”