Edo: PDP unsettles as Obaseki speaks on impeachment plot against Deputy Shaibu

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State says the lawsuit instituted by his deputy, Philip Shaibu, to stop impeachment moves against him is a pre-emptive action to enable him join another party while retaining his position as deputy governor.

Obaseki spoke for the first time since Shaibu filed a suit to stop an alleged move by the governor to impeach his deputy over their irreconcilable differences.

Obaseki said: “There is no timetable yet for the Edo election, it will come later in the year. So, I believe that this action by him is just a pre-emptive move to get a court order to keep his position while he now moves to the other party to get the ticket.

“And I think it’s unfair on our party, it’s unfair on the state that we don’t need this sort of crisis and two our state is not being represented well locally and internationally. I have been getting calls from all over the world.

“It is rather sad that somebody who is part of an administration would do this to the administration he has been part of just because of his own personal ambition.”

See the video here:

Let me put it on record that I am not aware of any plot or any scheme to impeach the Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu. The court action taken, for me, is a thing of shock and disappointment. pic.twitter.com/O9vn1OH0JT

— Godwin Obaseki (GGO) (@GovernorObaseki) August 7, 2023