Mr Philip Shaibu, Edo Deputy
Governor, has said that come Sept. 19, the APC candidate, Ize Iyamu will lose
in the ward of Mr Adams Oshiomhole, former National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC).
Shaibu said this in an interview
with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Benin on Sunday.
He said that this was not because
he was “one superstar”, but because he was connected with the people.
He noted that he does not do
money politics, nor uses money for election or bribe people for election, but
does “organic” politics, which is building relationship with people.
He also said that he believed in
being the messenger of the people, carrying the dividend of democracy to the
people.
He told NAN that not only would
he and the PDP defeat the former National Chairman in his ward, but would also
win the entire six local government areas in Edo North Senatorial District.
He said that he will win the
district with a very wide margin.
He said, “Edo North Senatorial
District will be the easiest to win, because the political structure of the
place is in our hands.”
He also disclosed that he
introduced the former National Chairman of the APC to politics and organised
his first ever political meeting that brought him in.
“I introduced Comrade Oshiomhole
to politics. I organised his first ever political meeting that brought him in.
“I was in politics before him. I
won my election in 2003, without going to court.
“But he came through the court,
and I was already a member of the Edo House of Assembly 18 months before he
became a governor.
Shaibu who is the deputy
governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the Edo
governorship election billed for Sept. 19, also said that his loyalty to the
PDP candidate, Gov. Godwin Obaseki, remains unshaken.
He noted that this was because as
the deputy governor of the state, his interest was the development of the
state.
He added that the governor was
already developing the state in many ways and he would follow and stand with
him to the last.
He stressed that he would
continue to fight on the side of any government that would make poverty a
history in the state.
He noted that he was not just
loyal to the governor, but to a vision that the governor, himself and even the
former governor had shared.
He noted that Oshiomhole started
the vision, which was the vision for development, moving the state forward as
well as turning it from a civil service state to an industrial state and a
business hub of the nation.
He disclosed that although the
immediate past governor of the state was pushed forward to be the leader of
that vision, regrettably, he was the only one who had pulled out of that shared
vision.
“But the governor came with a
promise to take that vision to the next level and he has done that.
“For instance, Oshiomhole built red roofs, but Obaseki put content into the red roofs, that is why we now have the EdoBest, because red roofs without content is zero,” he said.
He further said that if God has
sustained the vision to move the state forward, he would remain loyal to the
governor.
He added, “It was the same
loyalty I gave to the former National Chairman of the APC, when he came to
rescue the state and said the people must lead.
“That is because I am constant
and that constant thing in me is supporting any government that will sustain
democracy, and will make the state move forward.
“That means wealth will be
redistributed, and poverty will be history.”
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