Nigeria: Edo 2020 - a Test Case for 2023 Meltdown

21 June 2020

The battle between Governor Godwin Obaseki and his estranged godfather, Adams Oshiomhole, in the Edo State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress has snowballed into a national crisis threatening the very existence of the party with eyes of all belligerents firmly fixed on 2023.

"2023 is far, but all major players in the political equation have to be alive and abreast of whatever is happening with the party. If not, some people will wake up and discover they have missed out," a close confidant of one of governors on the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, told THISDAY earlier in the year.

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