Edo State deputy governor, Philip Shaibu has alleged his principal officer, Governor Obaseki of fresh plot to impeach him from office.
While addressing the press in Abuja on Sunday, Shaibu revealed that the plot has been intensified, following his emergence as a factional candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the upcoming governorship election.
Recall that the returning officer in the PDP governorship primary and Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal had on Thursday announced Asue Ighodalo as the winner of the delegate election, having polled a total of 577 votes.
However, in the parallel primaries that took place at the Benin residence of the Deputy Governor, the returning officer, Bartholomew Moses, declared Shaibu the winner having reportedly polled 300 votes.
Shaibu, who had been at loggerheads with his principal officer, Mr Obaseki who had previously plotted to impeach him, also stressed that he was prepared for any legal battle to exercise his constitutional right to run in the forthcoming election.
“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,” he claimed.
