Edo guber: They want to impeach me – Shaibu alleges

Philip Shaibu, Edo State Deputy Governor, has raised the alarm of a fresh plan to impeach him following his emergence as the factional candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 21 governorship election.

Shaibu has been having a running battle with his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki, over his plans to contest the governorship election.

The deputy governor who disclosed this during a media parley with journalists, said the impeachment move was revealed to him by his team.

Shaibu, however, vowed to carry on with his preparations even if doing so would lead to his impeachment by the state House of Assembly.

Dauda Lawal, the Governor of Zamfara State and returning officer in the PDP governorship primary, had on Thursday declared Asue Ighodalo the winner of the delegate election, having polled a total of 577 votes.

But in the parallel primary that took place at the Benin residence of the Deputy Governor, the returning officer, Bartholomew Moses, announced Shaibu as the winner, saying he won “with over 300 votes.”

Shaibu said; “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.

“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.”