ABUJA -------------The Deputy National Chairman, North, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Shuaibu has returned to the party following his recall from suspension by the National Working Committee, NWC, Tuesday.

Shuaibu who was at the national secretariat of the APC at about 3:20pm Wednesday, said that "for the party to make a headway in the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo State, the incumbent governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki remained its best bet."

Commenting on the crises 

between Obaseki the national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, Shuiabu said it was a time bomb waiting to explode. 

He said; "It is a time bomb. We all heard President Muhammafu Buhari during the last NEC meeting announce that any governor who has performed, deserves a second term...

"So, why should you prefer any other person than the sitting governor? It is like that all over the world even in America that started this democracy. Donald Trump has no opposition and nobody is contesting against him in his party. 

"It does not make sense to bring another person to contest against the governor. Gov. Obaseki is the strongest candidate of the APC we have in Edo state."

On hiscresumption after his recall, he also said; "Nobody suspended me, it was just a fight that I wanted to avoid. I don't want to continue the fight and that was why I kept quite. All I wanted to do was to raise my hand before the market burns because by the time the market goes aflame everybody may be consumed.

"All I have said in that letter have all come to pass. It is wrong to say that the war is over because to me, there was no war in the first place. My letter to Oshiomhole was very personal; to either save the party or allow it to collapse.

"The structures of the party as a result of the inability of the leadership to reposition the party has become very weak. From wards to the national centres, the structures have become weak and that was what I was trying to avoid.

"I told him to come back to the track and if he cannot do it, let him leave because some of us have suffered to build this party. However, as he said, in the spirit of reconciliation, all these are now bygone because there is nothing anybody can do when he said he has extended the Olive branch.

"Oshiomhole is my very good friend and we have been very close friends but when something went wrong, I cannot sit down when the house is collapsing on our heads without telling the world what was happening."