Why I Fought on The Side of Obaseki Against Oshiomhole — Shaibu

Edo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Philip Shaibu, has given reasons why he supported governor Godwin Obaseki against Comrade Adams Oshiomhole during the September 19,2020 governorship election in the state.

Shaibu spoke in Benin yesterday  at reception organised by the  out-gone local government chairmen in the state shortly after their  Thanksgiving service at St. Paul Catholic Church.

He said, “We said there must be a change and that godfathers must be brought to their kneels and people must decide who lead them while leaders must be accountable to the people and not few godfathers.

“But, along the line people that don’t believe in it fall by the road just like the way Oshiomhole fell by the road side because he didn’t actually believe that we should make poverty history in Edo.

“Even the commissioners, SSAS and some local government chairmen that resigned from our cabinet didn’t believe in the course because if they do the fight then was needles,”.

 ” for me people said I am loyal to Obaseki, but I am  loyal to a course I believe in, “I was brutalised, Injured and had my kneel and everything  replaced under Oshiomhole’s administration, all this was that some godfathers wanted to derail our making poverty history in Edo, so we fought on the side of the people and the beneficiary of that struggle was Oshiomhole,”.

He said, “the second fight now, he (Oshiomhole)  became the new godfather trying to derail making poverty history which he fought for, but I fought on the side of governor Obaseki in making poverty history  in Edo,” Shaibu said whoever stand in the way of  making poverty history in the state will always have all of them to fight, adding  “I will be in the forefront of that fight ,”.