- Shaibu said he got an intelligence report that Obaseki ordered his men not to allow him into the state.
The reinstated deputy governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, says the State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has vowed to destroy him.
Shaibu alleged that Obaseki was behind the attack on him and Monday Okpebholo, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state on Thursday.
A clutch of armed men opened fire on Shaibu and Okpebholo on Thursday at the exit gate of the Benin Airport upon their return from Abuja after the judgment reinstating the former as the deputy governor of the state.
Okpebholo’s police aide was killed during the shootout.
Speaking during an interview on Channels TV on Friday evening, Shaibu said he got an intelligence report that Obaseki ordered his men not to allow him into the state.
He, however, said no one can stop him from entering the state even if he was an ordinary let alone as a deputy governor.
He said: “Yesterday I got intel that the governor told his men not to allow me into town. I’m a free-born citizen of Edo State, nobody can allow me into the state.
“The Constitution does not allow anybody to bar me from entering the state, not even when I’m a deputy governor, even if I’m an ordinary citizen; nobody has that right.
“But I didn’t know he would arm them that much, reviewing it further; I remembered the governor threatening to destroy me, he used the word ‘I will destroy you’
“It’s obvious that it was an attempt to actualize the statement that he was going to destroy me. I have decided that only God can destroy a man and that’s why I have decided that I will fight till the end of this campaign, even when I was impeached; I decided to fight for the sanity and sanctity of the office of the deputy governor.”
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