Obaseki has since debunked claims of instigating lawmakers to begin impeachment proceedings against Shaibu.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has assured his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki, that he does not intend to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Musa Ebomhiana, Shaibu said the architects of the rumour of defection to the APC were hack writers and mischief-makers who were bent on destabilising the state.
The statement said: “They will stop at nothing to widen the gulf between Mr Governor, His Excellency, Governor Godwin Obaseki and his Deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu.
“They have generated more lies from the pit of hell, saying that Comrade Philip Shaibu has perfected plans to rejoin the All Progressives Congress, APC, next week. There is no iota of truth in this.
“To further put a lie to this, the spin doctors claimed that the APC National Working Committee, NWC is set to receive him in Abuja.
“The question here for the discerning minds is that, is it the NWC of a party that receives a decampee into the party?
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“Shaibu has never minced words, vowing to sink and swim with his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki. This, he has said severally at public fora.
“In view of this, I plead with these characters bent on driving a wedge between Comrade Philip Shaibu and his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki to put the Edo project and the people far above their own selfish interest.”
Also on Thursday, former governor Adams Oshiomhole said the APC was not an Internally Displaced Persons camp for the rehabilitation of those chased out of their party.
He urged Shaibu to make peace with his boss and be loyal.
Obaseki has since debunked claims of instigating lawmakers to begin impeachment proceedings against Shaibu.