Rt. Hon Comrade Philip Shaibu, Edo State Deputy Governor, South-South Nigeria, declared yesterday that reports of his impending defection to the All Progressive Congress (APC) are a lie from the pit of hell.
Shaibu, who is currently at odds with the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, petitioned a Federal High Court in Abuja and secured a restraining order against the state House of Assembly’s apparent attempt to impeach him.
The troubled deputy governor’s reaction followed a viral allegation that the APC’s National Working Committee (NWC) had finalized arrangements to admit him to the party next week.
However, Shaibu, in a statement issued by his chief press secretary (CPS), Musa Ebomhiana, stated that the said report is the work of miscreants intent on extending the chasm between him and the Governor.
“Hack writers are at it again,” Ebomhiana says. “Miscreants intent on destabilizing our beloved Edo State are still at work. They will go to every length to widen the gap between Mr. Governor, His Excellency, Governor Godwin Obaseki, and his Deputy, Rt Hon Comrade Philip Shaibu. They have spewed more lies from hell, claiming that Rt Hon Comrade Philip Shaibu has finalized preparations to rejoin the All Progressives Congress (APC) next week. This is not true in the least.
“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 decampee 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. 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 interest,” the statement added.
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