Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, expressed concern about a recent effort to oust him from his position. This apprehension heightened following his election as a factional candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the upcoming gubernatorial election. Shaibu, speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday, revealed his worries about the scheme.
During the PDP governorship primary, the returning officer, Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State, declared Asue Ighodalo the winner with a total of 577 votes in the delegate election.
However, in the parallel primaries that took place at the Benin residence of the Deputy Governor, the returning officer, Bartholomew Moses, declared Shaibu the winner, saying he won “with over 300 votes.”
“Even as we speak, my team has been calling me that, ‘Look at what these people are doing. They are saying they are going to impeach you; that you have gotten too far.’ They are threatening to impeach me,” he said.
“And I said, well, if fighting for my rights and all of us collectively fighting for my rights as in the constitution, triggers impeachment, so be it, because fighting for my rights and saying I must contest the election is my constitutional rights and cannot be taken by anybody.
“So if constitutional right is why they will now trigger impeachment, the courts are there; they will interpret it,” he said.
