The Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, is not planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) for any reason.
OsunDailyNG reports that a top PDP chieftain in the state, who craved anonymity, made this known in an interview with Vanguard on Friday.
The source also denied a report that Shaibu had perfected plans to rejoin the APC and that the ruling party’s National Working Committee (NWC) is set to receive him in Abuja.
According to the source, Shaibu had always appreciated Obaseki and helped in performing any assigned tasks, adding that the deputy governor did not refuse to join the governor in the selection of commissioners in Etsako.
He said, “The appointment of political office holders is the prerogative of the governor. Therefore, if a governor decides to allow his deputy to nominate candidates to fill any position, it is a privilege. But political jobbers, who also include hack writers, have generated more lies from the pit of hell, saying that Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu has perfected plans to rejoin the All-Progressives Congress, APC next week. There is no iota of truth in this.
“To further put a lie to this, the spin doctors claimed that the APC National Working Committee, NWC, is set to receive him in Abuja. The question here for the discerning minds is that, is it the NWC of a party that receives a decamped into the party? Shaibu has never minced words, vowing to sink and swim with his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki. This, he has said severally at public fora.”
“These evil men acting as agents of evil have come up with unbelievable accusations like coming late to State Executive meetings, attempting to slap the Secretary to the State Government, being the brain behind feuds between: Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the governor, as well as with the former Rivers state governor Nyesom Wike and Obaseki, Dan Orbih and Obaseki and many others that their wild and dangerous imaginations can come up with.
“In view of this, I plead with these characters bent on driving a wedge between Comrade Philip Shaibu and his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki, to put the Edo project and the people far above their own selfish interests.”
