Edo: Okpebholo has right to back APC aspirants for 2027 – Afegbua

The Edo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Prince Kassim Afegbua, said Governor Monday Okpebholo has the inalienable close to enactment aspirants seeking to look arsenic candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2027 wide elections successful the state.

Prince Afegbua stated this connected Monday, April 27, 2026, portion responding to questions astatine a property league successful Benin.

DAILY POST reports that members of the APC, particularly supporters of immoderate aspirants for the State and National Assembly seats, person alleged that the authorities politician has preferred aspirants helium wants to look arsenic candidates successful the party’s superior elections scheduled for adjacent month.

They alleged that the politician is down the aspirations of immoderate governmental appointees who resigned from his cabinet.

The supporters mentioned immoderate of the alleged preferred aspirants arsenic Dr Paddy Iyamu, the erstwhile Commissioner for Education, who is aspiring for Oredo Federal Constituency; Dr Washighton Osifo, erstwhile Commissioner for Water Resources and Sanitation, aspirant for Uhunmwonde/Or...