Edo 2024 Governorship Poll: I Made Sure PDP’s Asue Ighodalo Lost – Wike

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has admitted that he worked against Asue Ighodalo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2024 Edo governorship election, because he did not want former Governor Godwin Obaseki to produce his successor.
Wike made the revelation on Monday at a stakeholders’ meeting of the rainbow coalition in Abuja, where he said an alliance between elements of the PDP and the All Progressives Congress (APC) contributed to the ruling party’s victory in the election.
The APC candidate, Monday Okpebholo, defeated Ighodalo, who was backed by Obaseki, in the September 2024 governorship election.
Speaking at the meeting, Wike, ...