Edo 2024:  Shaibu Qualified To Contest, Top Esan Monarch

Edo State Deputy Governor and PDP governorship aspirant in the 2024 election, Comrade Philip Shaibu on Wednesday won the approval of the Ojuromi of Uromi, His Royal Majesty, Zaiki Anslem Edenojie II, to contest the election during a meeting with Esan monarchs.

Shaibu who met the Esan monarchs at the palace of the Ojuromi of Uromi on his part charged them to be wary of people flying only on an ethnic agenda. He also told them to be cautious of strangers charging them that he had been with them all along unlike those who do not know them.

GWG.ng reports that the approval is against the agitation by a large section of Esan political elites for the zoning of the ticket to Esanland.

“The Deputy Governor is known to all of us, I don’t think there is anybody here who does not know him. My personal relationship with him dates back to the days when he was a member of the State House of Assembly.

“We believe that he (Shaibu) is more than qualified to be the governor of our state,” the monarch who also doubles as the Chairman, Esan Traditional Council said.

One of the traditional rulers, the Enojie of Ujogba and  Secretary of the Traditional Council, His Royal Highness, Zaiki Solomon Ojiega, said although Edo stands on a tripod, they believe on someone who can feel for them, respect the traditional institution and give it a pride of place in society.

Earlier, the Deputy Governor had briefed the Traditional Council of his aspiration to contest the 2024 Governorship Election in the state, saying that he was in the palace to seek first their support to be the flagbearer of the People Democratic Party, PDP.

He said he was not a stranger to them, as their relationship dated back to his student days as President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, before becoming a member of the State House of Assembly.

Shaibu pleaded that they should support someone they know, they can feel and touch. Someone who has lived among them for years, who knows their feelings and understands their pains.

The Deputy Governor advised the royal fathers to  be wary of all those dangling the ethnic card before them because it is an attempt to deceive them and divide us as a people, saying, “Edo has gone beyond ethnic politics but somebody who has the capacity, a deep knowledge of the state and who is fully on ground to address issues of concern to the people. Those playing ethnic politics are  limited and short of what to tell the people, Shaibu said.

Shortly after receiving the royal blessing, the Deputy Governor met with the PDP Leaders in the Eleven (11) Wards in Esan South-East Local Government, where he  reiterated his readiness to be the next Governor of Edo State, pleading that they should support his nomination to bear the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming party primaries. He said he has had a close relationship with some of them way back his school days, describing himself as one of them who understands their pains. .

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