Embattled Edo State Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu has revealed the cause of the rift between him and his principal, Governor, Godwin Obaseki.
Shaibu in a statement when he visited the NWC of APC in Abuja, said the rift began the moment he declared his interest to contest the forthcoming governorship election.
According to him, he would have dropped his governorship ambition, if his principal was reasonable enough to talk to him, rather than threaten to bring him down.
He said, “The truth is that the issues were all political. I declared to contest for the governor of Edo State. That is where the fight started.”
He (Obaseki) said, ‘You cannot contest because I have my plans’. The next thing was that he would destroy me if I continued. For me, no man can destroy the plan of God. As an activist, that day I made up my mind that I was going to contest. As of the time our conversation was on, I was still consulting. I went into the race and I won it because I played high-powered politics. They are not politicians. They rode on our back to where they are. In the politics I played, I actually had 400 out of the 572 delegates.
