Flashback: We Will Isolate Wike in Edo, Ganduje Boasts

Kano state Governor, Umar Ganduje has said the All Progressives Congress (APC), will isolate the Rivers state Governor, Nyesom Wike in Edo state during the gubernatorial election in the state.

Speaking on Monday, July 6, 2020 shortly after his inauguration as the chairman of the 49-member high-level National Campaign Council for the Edo State Governorship Election by Governor of Yobe State and Chairman of APC the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CEONCPC), Mai Mala Buni, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, Ganduje said Edo people will not reelect Governor Godwin Obaseki because what he described as treachery.

“There is a soft spot for anything like that, the issue is that first of all, we know PDP made Wike their chairman. I assure you, we will isolate Wike in an isolation centre and before he recovers, the election is over.

“The PDP decided to accommodate our former Governor in Edo State not because they have anything in common, not because they share some feelings, but simply because he is managing the treasury of Edo State and they want him to use that treasury in order to win the election.

“But I assure you the people of Edo State are watching. They know that somebody who they assisted in 2016 to win an election, somebody who was given every cooperation to succeed in the governance of Edo State without doing much for the people, at the end of it, he’s taken the treasury and now handed it over to the PDP in order to win the election.

“The people of Edo State will not accept this treachery. The people of Edo State on 19th September will come out en masse and vote APC” the Governor said.

However, as results trickle in from Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Edo on Sunday, the PDP has been in clear lead despite Ganduje’s boastful remarks.

See updated results

1. Egor

APC: 10, 202

PDP: 27, 621

2. Esan Central.

PDP: 10,694

APC: 6,719

3.. Esan North East.

PDP: 13,579

APC: 6,559

4. Esan South East

PDP: 10,565

APC: 9,237

5. Esan West.

APC – 7,189

PDP – 17,433

6. Etsako West.

APC 26,140

PDP 17,959

7.. Igueben.

PDP: 7,870

APC: 5,199

8. Ikpoba-Okha

PDP: 41, 030

APC: 18, 218

9. Owan East.

APC: 19,295

PDP: 14,762

10. Uhunmwonde South South

PDP: 10,022

APC: 5,972

11. Etsako East

APC 17,011

PDP 10,668.

12. Akoko Edo

APC 22,963

PDP 20,101

13. Owan West

APC – 11,193

PDP – 11,485

14. Ovia North-East

APC – 9,907

PDP – 16,987

15. Oredo LGA

APC – 18,365

PDP – 43,498

16. Etsako-Central LGA

APC -8359,

PDP – 7478