Elections
Edo: Okpebhelo Doesn’t Speak Much English, But Is A Breath Of Fresh Air – Shaibu
Reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has said he has put his governorship ambition on hold to back the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Monday Okpebholo, to win the September 21 governorship election in the state.
Shaibu said this on Sunday, while speaking at the Afemai World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.
He claimed that Okpebholo would make a better governor than Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP being backed by Obaseki.
In a video clip which was made available by the organisers of the Afemai World Congress on Sunday, Shaibu, was captured calling on Nigerians in diaspora to be interested in the politics of Nigeria.
He said, “Elections are coming and I would like you to be interested. You see that I have moved from the PDP back to the APC. I moved to the PDP because of the governor (Obaseki) and I am back in the APC because of the governor.
“I wanted to become the governor and they said they would destroy me if I continued to nurse that ambition. They have done everything but God has kept me alive.
“I was impeached but I knew I would come to this programme as the deputy governor. I have been reinstated and my impeachment was part of intimidation and harassment, which I have gone through. We must begin to look for ways to salvage our country.”
Shaibu added, “I am supporting the APC candidate because he is a breath of fresh air and he is not contaminated yet. He doesn’t speak too much English. He talks less and does more and he is the first person to break the jinx in Edo Central by winning the Senate seat on the platform of APC.
“The same scenario that made him a senator is playing out now. It is obvious that the grace of God is upon him. I have played my card, we are still young. If God says I will be governor, then I will be. I have left my ambition to God and we will make Afemai and Edo State, the land of our dream.”
With additional report from the Punch
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