Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Obaseki disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Tuesday on his way out of the Presidential Villa.
He also dismissed allegations that his credentials were not original.
In a tweet on Tuesday, he said, I have officially resigned my membership of the All Progressives Congress after meeting with the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We shall continue the battle to protect the interest of Edo people and sustain good governance in the state,” he said.
Obaseki was last week disqualified from bidding for his party – the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket.
Expatiating on reasons for Obaseki’s disqualification while submitting its report, the party’s screening Appeal Committee Chairman, Dr. Abubakar Fari, at the weekend said: “In the affidavit sworn to by Godwin Obaseki before the High Court Abuja, he stated under oath that he graduated from the University of Ibadan with a BA degree in Classical Studies in 1976.
However, the university certificate he attached to his nomination form bears 1979 which is a material contradiction.’’
The committee also said it found it hard to believe Obaseki gained admission to study at the university with three credits without a proper A-levels or a diploma.
It added that the governor was in possession of two separate voter cards which is illegal. Fari added that the attestation letter of the Institute the governor claimed to have attended after secondary school, was not on the letter head of the school.
