Edo guber: “They want to remove me from office” Shaibu exclaims

Philip Shaibu, the deputy governor of Edo State, expressed concern over a fresh plan to unseat him.

He claimed that after he was chosen as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) factional candidate for the next governorship race, the plot was strengthened.

This was said by Shaibu, the state’s deputy governor, during a press conference on Saturday in Abuja.

Asue Ighodalo emerged victorious in the delegate election on Thursday, with 577 votes, according to the results declared by Dauda Lawal, the governor of Zamfara State and returning officer for the PDP governorship primary.

But in the concurrent primary held at the Deputy Governor’s home in Benin, Bartholomew Moses, the returning officer, announced Shaibu as the victor, claiming he did so “with over 300 votes.”

“My staff has been telling me to “look at what these folks are doing” even as we speak. They are claiming that you have gone too far and that they will impeach you. He said, “They’re threatening to impeach me.”

And I replied, “Well, if standing up for my rights and standing up for my rights as guaranteed by the constitution as a group causes us to be impeached, then so be it. I have the constitutional right to stand up for myself and to say that I must run for office.

He declared, “The courts are there; they will interpret it if they will now trigger impeachment because of a constitutional right.”