- Shaibu and Obaseki have been embroiled in a deep-seated rift stemming from their conflicting views on the state’s gubernatorial contest.
Philip Shaibu, the reinstated deputy governor of Edo, says Asue Ighodalo, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo, has not been accepted by the people of the state.
Shaibu spoke when he featured on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, on Friday.
The reinstated deputy governor alleged that the PDP candidate faces opposition from his own people due to his inability to communicate in their local dialect.
He vowed that Ighodalo, handpicked by Obaseki, would be rejected by voters at the ballot box.
“We are out now in politics and we will see where Obaseki has a shield and we are waiting for him in this election,” he said.
“I can tell you that the people don’t want Asue Ighodalo; even his own people in ‘Ewohimi’ don’t want him because he can’t speak their language.”
Shaibu said that Obaseki won the 2020 election out of sympathy, adding that the electorate perceived that the governor was being oppressed at that time.
‘OBASEKI THREATENED TO DEAL WITH ME’
Shaibu alleged that Obaseki made menacing remarks towards him after he expressed his intention to run for governor.
He also said that Obaseki withheld his salary and allowances for the past 15 months.
“Immediately I showed signs that I was going to contest the office of the governor, that was where the whole fight and all the oppression and all the intimidation started. I can tell Nigerians that this is the 15th month, over a year now, I have not received any cheque from the government,” he said.
“Immediately Obaseki perceived that I was going to contest the office of the governor, he even told me to my face that if I go ahead to contest the governorship election, he was going to deal with me and he was going to – he used the word ‘destroy’ me.”
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