The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has declared that he has no preferred candidate to succeed him as his tenure winds down in a matter of months.
Obaseki who made this statement while speaking to pressmen in Benin city, Edo state capital on Friday amid speculations that he had presented a banker, Mr. Asuen Oghodalo to some leaders of his party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP as his anointed successor, denied ever picking anyone to succeed him.
Truth Live News had gathered through a reliable source, that the governor had visited some leaders in Edo central to intimate them of his decision to have the unknown Ighodalo as his successor.
The governor asserted that he would ensure that the process that will produce the next governor will be fair, equitable and that which will bring everyone in the state together as one.
He said: “I am not in the position now to determine, appoint or anoint a successor,’’ Edo’s Gov. Godwin Obaseki, said in Benin on Friday.
In his words: “All I know is that in the process of seeking my successor, there must be fairness, equity, and a sense of inclusion because our goal is to keep Edo as one.
“The important thing for us as an administration is for us to finish strong and complete everything we told Edo people we would do for them during our campaigns,’’ Obaseki told newsmen.
Recall some notable PDP leaders who were nursing the idea of succeeding the governor had left the party with the belief that Obaseki had chosen someone to fly the party’s flag already.