TROUBLE For Obaseki As Deputy Governor Shaibu LEAKS Secret, UNVEILS Amount PDP Brought To Buy Votes In His Ward
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has made a serious allegation against Governor Godwin Obaseki and the People’ s Democratic Party PDP in the just- concluded elections which brought the ruling party of the All Progressive Congress APC to victory.
The allegation has since been generating reactions from Nigerians that Governor Godwin Obaseki brought ₦73 million to his ward to buy votes during Saturday’ s governorship election.
Philip Shaibu made the allegation on Monday while speaking in an interview with News Correspondents about the development of things in Edo State.
He added that Governor Obaseki was responsible for the loss of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, adding that at the preliminary state, there is no sign that APC will come to power in the state.
Shaibu said, ” The game changer was Obaseki refusing to share his program and feeling with anyone, including me is Deputy. He can be an autocrat, a dictator and wants to enforce decisions without considering repercussions. He feels he now has money which he didn’ t have in 2016 to use to buy his way through.
He feels he can bring 73 million to my ward and make sure he wins my ward without my support. I will show you the print of the amount of money he earmarked to buy votes in my ward and when I saw the document. I laughed. It also pushed a lot of people to transfer their voting unit to my unit and that is why in the state today, I have the highest PVC voters in my unit. ”
According to him, a total of 618 key members of the PDP joined the APC. He added a total of 1018 of his supporters left with him to the APC.
He said that, ” There are 10 of us that contested for primaries in PDP and 9 of us, Obaseki slammed us to hell. The last time I counted, it was about 618 key leaders that left PDP to APC. The total number of people that resigned from my own side that I have on the list is about 1018 persons to join APC. His end has come. He should go to rest. “
