I will defeat Oshiomhole in his ward, Shaibu boasts
Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu
The Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has said he will defeat Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and ex-governor of the state in his ward on September 19.
Shaibu, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin yesterday, said this was not because he was “one superstar”, but because he was connected with the people.
He said that he will win the district with a very wide margin.
He said, “Edo North Senatorial District will be the easiest to win, because the political structure of the place is in our hands.”
He also disclosed that he introduced the former National Chairman of the APC to politics and organised his first ever political meeting that brought him in.
“I introduced Comrade Oshiomhole to politics. I organised his first ever political meeting that brought him in.
“I was in politics before he, I won my election in 2003, without going to court.
“But he came through the court, and I was already a member of the Edo House of Assembly 18 months before he became a governor.
Shaibu who is the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the Edo governorship election billed for Sept. 19, also said that his loyalty to the PDP candidate, Gov. Godwin Obaseki, remained unshaken.
He noted that this was because as the deputy governor of the state, his interest was the development of the state.
He added that the governor was already developing the state in many ways and he would follow and stand with him to the last.
He stressed that he would continue to fight on the side of any government that would make poverty a history in the state.
He noted that he was not just loyal to the governor, but to a vision that the governor, himself and even the former governor had shared.
He noted that Oshiomhole started the vision, which was the vision for development, moving the state forward as well as turning it from a civil service state to an industrial state and a business hub of the nation.
(NAN)
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