Dep. Gov. Shaibu denies plans to defect from PDP to APC  

Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu of Edo State has denied reports that he intends to defect from, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The deputy governor faulted the speculations about his defection plans, reiterating that he will not return to the APC.

The deputy governor declared: “For me as Philip Shaibu, I have no plans now to leave. But for Philip Shaibu and his followers and the followers of Obaseki, that left APC to the PDP, they all plan to leave PDP, but to where I don’t know.

“We feel not accepted in PDP and that is the reason we are actually thinking that it is time to just throw the curtain to leave.

“The truth is that the governor has been appealing and you can see that from yesterday’s meeting. Some of us are not happy with the governor’s statement saying he is not leaving the PDP. For some of us, we felt we left APC because of the governor not because we wanted to join PDP.

“We left APC because of the oppression the APC National Chairman meted on the governor. For some of us that hate oppression, we decided to jettison our relationship even with the then godfather and other persons to follow the governor to the PDP that the leadership asked that the governor should go.”