EDO: Obaseki Likens Embattled Deputy To A Spoilt Child

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has likened his embattled Deputy, Hon. Philip Shaibu, to a spoilt child with the attitude of self entitlement, describing him as bullish and indisciplined.

The Governor, who stated this after his Deputy filed a suit in an Abuja Federal High Court seeking to stop him (Obaseki) and the State House of Assembly from impeaching him, said Shaibu on sundry occasions sauntered and gallivanted into the State Executive Council (SEC) meetings, even with the Governor already superintending.

Obaseki, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media Projects, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said, “Like the biblical sinner who runs when no one pursues him, Shaibu has ran to the Federal High Court in Abuja, asking for a restraining order to stop his impeachment – which is at best, a completely false allegation”.

The statement added, “The rabble-rouser Deputy Governor has now taken his indiscipline and hubris to the zenith by trying to create crisis because of his inordinate and self-serving ambition to succeed the Governor by all means, no matter whose ox is gored.

“Imagine a Deputy Governor who insists that all other vehicles on the Governor’s convoy must be behind his own vehicle when he and the Governor are travelling together.

“A particular driver in the Governor’s convoy on a trip to a Niger-Delta State in 2020 was beaten to stupor under the supervision of the Deputy Governor and his wife, Maryann.

“The driver’s crime was that he dared to overtake Shaibu’s vehicle in order to catch up with the Governor’s convoy, where he was supposed to be”.