PDP Governorship Screening Committee Clears All Ten Aspirants in Edo

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Screening Committee for Edo State has granted clearance to all ten aspirants who appeared before it on Monday.

At the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, eight aspirants were present to collect their clearance certificates from Umar Bature, the National Organizing Secretary of the party.
Bature confirmed that “all ten, aspirants were cleared”.

However, Balogun Sunday, who paid N5 million and obtained the expression of interest form, did not show up for screening because he did not buy the nomination forms.

The aspirants who have been granted clearance are: Hon. OmOsede Igbenedion, Anslem U. Ojezua Esq., Hon. Felix E. Akhabue, Asuerinme Ighodalo, Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, Arthur Esene, Omoregie Ogbedie Ihama, Amb. Prof. Martin Uhomobh, Osaro Osaze Onaiwu, Umoru Adizetu Hadizat

Kanyi Daily recalls that a campaign vehicle owned by Philip Shaibu, the Deputy Governor of Edo State and a gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was allegedly assaulted by armed individuals believed to be hoodlums