{"id":96228,"date":"2022-06-21T18:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=96228"},"modified":"2022-06-21T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:11:11","slug":"nigerians-want-an-alternative-to-pdp-apc-obaseki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigerians-want-an-alternative-to-pdp-apc-obaseki\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians Want An Alternative To PDP, APC \u2014 Obaseki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has noted that Nigerians are no longer interested in the two top political parties in the country \u2014 Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Party \u2014 and are in search of an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Obaseki while speaking in an interview with African Independent Television on the just concluded Ekiti governorship election, further revealed that the future of politics in the country was changing.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIn a video snippet posted on the verified Instagram page of the media mogul, Dele Momodu, the Edo governor said, \u201cHow can PDP, the party; not win? They were not even number two. So, you can see that something is going on and we do not want this to be a trend. The future of our politics in this country is changing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not know whether you are closely watching what is going on; the level of disenchantment within the parties. I am sure in all of our homes now, we have so many people now who call themselves \u2018Obidients\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know whether you have them in your house. Just ask them, \u2018which party are you?\u2019, they say \u2018Obidients\u2019; you understand. They do not want us; they are not talking about PDP or APC. They are looking for alternatives and they are many. You see all of them queuing for their PVCs now. They are not looking at the direction of PDP or APC now. They are looking for alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we do not curb this, if we do not make our party attractive, I do not know what will happen in the next elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also commenting on the Ekiti election, a chieftain of the party, Tom Ikimi, stated that the party was defeated because of the activities of a former governor of the state, Ayodele Fayose.<\/p>\n<p>Ikimi said, \u201cI am not afraid to say that our problem in Ekiti has been caused by the activities of our past governor, Ayo Fayose. He ruined the place before he left office. He insisted on putting his candidate with all kinds of struggles, even though we persuaded him to do otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ended up, on the election day, rolling on the floor and crying but that did not get us anywhere. Put that to rest; the build-up to the choice of the candidate in Ekiti was a big struggle. All kinds of meetings, peace interventions, until we had the heart to push away Segun Oni, who went to SDP that was not known here. 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