Philip Shaibu, the deputy governor of Edo State, has no intention of defecting from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to Anaedoonline.ng, a prominent PDP official in the state said this in an interview with Vanguard on Friday but requested anonymity.
The source also disputed a claim that Shaibu had finalised his plans to re-join the APC and that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the opposition party was going to meet with him in Abuja.
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The source claimed that Shaibu had always been grateful to Obaseki and had assisted in carrying out any jobs that had been assigned, and that the deputy governor had not declined to assist the governor in choosing the commissioners for 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.”
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“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.”
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