Edo 2020; Buhari, Ize-Iyamu Meet at the Presidential Villa.

 Earlier today, President l Muhammadu Buhari, hosted the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Nigeria.

The chairman of the party ’s caretaker committee, Mallam Mai Mala Buni , led the candidate to the meeting .

The meeting was held amidst heightened tension in Edo State .

Buni said the President has officially endorsed Osagie Ize -Iyamu as the party’ s candidate in the Edo State governorship election .

Buni told State House correspondents that the President presented the party ’s flag to Ize - Iyamu during the meeting they had with him at the Presidential Villa , Abuja .

Ize - Iyamu also told reporters that there is no truth in the claim that the members of the state House of Assembly , who met on Thursday and elected a factional Speaker, did so inside his house .

“ Let me debunk the statement that 17 members of the State House of Assembly sat in my sitting room, it is not true ,” he said .

On his part , Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State described his Edo State counterpart and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the September elections, Godwin Obaseki, as a liability to the PDP .

“ I can assure you that Governor Obaseki is a liability to the PDP . I can assure you that we are contesting against a governor who has failed most woefully, ” he said.

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