Saturday, July 20, 2024 -Reinstated Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of denying him entry into the state.
This development comes amid escalating
tensions between the two leaders over the upcoming governorship election.
In an interview on Channels
Television’s "Politics Today," Shaibu detailed his allegations
against Obaseki, just two days after the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered
his reinstatement. Shaibu, a devout Catholic, expressed his belief that only
God has the power to destroy a person, vowing to persist in his political fight
until the September 21 governorship election.
Shaibu also accused Governor Obaseki
of being behind a recent attack in Benin City. He claimed that the governor was
fulfilling an earlier promise to destroy him. Additionally, Shaibu mourned the
death of a police inspector who was killed during an attack on his convoy and
that of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Monday Okpebholo, by
suspected gunmen in Benin City.
He said;
“Yesterday, I got intel that the
governor has told his men that they must not allow me into town. I am a
free-born of Edo State, nobody can stop me from entering Edo State.
“The constitution does not allow anybody to
bar me from entering Edo State, not even when I am a deputy governor. Even if I
am an ordinary citizen, I should have a right. I should have freedom.
“I didn’t know he (Obaseki) would arm them (gunmen) that much. I remember the
governor saying during this crisis when I declared to contest for the governor
that if I continued, he would destroy me.
“With what happened yesterday, it was obvious that it was an orchestrated
attempt to actualise that statement that he was going to destroy me.”
Shaibu also said he would work hard to
preserve the institution of the office of the deputy governor. He accused
Obaseki of destroying his office, saying he had not been paid for the past
year.
He added;
“One of my main cardinal goals is to
strengthen institutions. I am seeing the institution of the office of the
deputy governor being destroyed by the governor for personal gain.
“That is why I am fighting to bring back
the sanity of the office of the deputy governor not for my personal self. The
governor has not paid me for the past year and I know he is not going to pay me
for the remaining four months.”
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