Adams Oshiomhole, national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has alleged that Philip
Shuaibu, deputy governor of Edo state, betrayed him.
Oshiomhole spoke when his
supporters paid him a visit on Tuesday at his country home in Iyamoh, Edo state.
The APC chairman said he found it
hard to believe that Shuaibu would turn against him despite helping him.
He blamed Shuaibu and some other
persons for the crisis rocking the state faction of the APC and urged his
supporters not to be used for “because of money”.
“There is nothing I have done in
life that I didn’t have to fight but as you can see by the special grace of God
there is no fight that I was forced into that I have not prevailed because I do
not go out of my way to look for trouble. I actually do my best to make peace
but if it fails, God will give the enablement to stand and defend the truth,”
Oshiomhole said.
“The only thing I will say today
to anyone who is here, who is an agent of my son; when I talk of my son, I’m
talking of Philip Shiabu, who now thinks that his own political future requires
that he attacks me and import thugs to disgrace me in my village.
“Supposing I was dead after 2016
and somebody tells me that my son Philip will organise people to attack my
house or to attack my village, to disrupt the convocation, maybe my body will
be turning in heaven and I will not believe but the fact that I’m alive to see
someone who did not win his own (polling) booth because his own people in his
own village in his own community of Jattu did not want him because they
apparently know him better than I do. But I stood by him, I stood for him and
he became the deputy governor.
“If all that transpired now is to
use that power to humiliate me but God didn’t allow it. As you can see, who can
fight the battle? It is only God so I leave the burden of guilt to them and I
will not repay evil with evil.
“I will stand on the path of
peace, I will stand on the path of unity. I will stand on the path of justice
because I know that God in heaven will never allow the evildoer to prevail.”
Earlier, Oshiomhole had blamed
Shaibu for the attack on Godwin Obaseki, the governor, and Rilwan Akiolu, oba
of Lagos, at his residence in Edo.
The incident happened during the
maiden convocation ceremony of Edo University.
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