cross Carpeting: Former APC Edo state Gubernitorial aspirants dumps party for PDP

– Don-Pedro Obaseki, a former gubernatorial candidate with the APC has decided to join the PDP ahead of September 10 Edo governorship election – Obaseki says he aims at stopping Governor Adams Oshiomhole from imposing a “surrogate” as his successor – Obaseki cites alleged discrimination and lack of transparency within the party as what sparked his decision to join PDP Don-Pedro Obaseki, a former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Obaseki, a cousin to the APC governorship candidate, Godwin Obaseki, made this known when he hosted some PDP leaders led by the state chairman, Dan Orbih and the party’s governorship candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, at his Benin home on Sunday, July 24. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter According to him, his decision to defect to the PDP is aimed at stopping Governor Adams Oshiomhole from imposing a “surrogate” as his successor. READ ALSO: Edo 2016: PDP campaign director defects to APC Obaseki had declared to run for the governorship election on the platform of the Accord Party (AP) after dumping APC, but his name was not included in the list of aspirants recently published the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). However, the former Managing Director of Daar Communications Plc cited alleged discrimination and lack of transparency within the APC as elements that triggered his decision to join the PDP.  “If I have decided to join my brothers, I have decided to join this my brother (Ize-Iyamu). More than anything, I am passionate about driving Oshiomhole and the APC out of Edo,” he said. “Edo people should be allowed to decide who should lead them and not by imposing a surrogate.”