{"id":219381,"date":"2024-09-21T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/edo-people-arent-dumb-wike-cant-decide-next-gov\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:08:09","slug":"edo-people-arent-dumb-wike-cant-decide-next-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/edo-people-arent-dumb-wike-cant-decide-next-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo People Aren&#8217;t Dumb, Wike Can&#8217;t Decide Next Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, can\u2019t decide the winner of Saturday\u2019s governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that Obaseki\u2019s statement followed the recent claim made by the FCT\u2019s Minister, over his stand in the September 21 poll.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Wike had earlier vowed not to support the Edo state\u2019s Governor and his anointed governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former Rivers state\u2019s governor, said that Obaseki does not deserve his support because he is a betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Thursday, the outgoing Governor, who was asked how worried he is about Wike\u2019s position this time around, said that Edo people are wise enough to decide whom to for by themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Edo Poll: I Won\u2019t Support Obaseki, PDP\u2019s Candidate Ighodalo \u2013 Wike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cHe (Wike) came to get Edo people to vote for me, right? Wow! Edo people are not that dumb, they know who to vote for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t require the services of an outsider to make their decisions. Edo people will make their decisions this time because they know what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"941128\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-987416447\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FirstBank-Giant-Strides300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, can\u2019t decide the winner of Saturday\u2019s governorship election. INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that Obaseki\u2019s statement followed the recent claim made by the FCT\u2019s Minister, over his stand in the September 21 poll. Recall that Wike had earlier vowed not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edo People Aren&#039;t Dumb, Wike Can&#039;t Decide Next Gov - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/09\/21\/edo-people-arent-dumb-wike-cant-decide-next-gov\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo People Aren&#039;t Dumb, Wike Can&#039;t Decide Next Gov - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, can\u2019t decide the winner of Saturday\u2019s governorship election. 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