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Former Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has alleged that Governor Godwin Obaseki took $300,000 from him under false pretenses during their political transition to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In a recent interview, Shuaibu claimed that Obaseki had requested the funds, purportedly to lobby party leaders ahead of their defection. However, he later discovered that the money was never delivered as promised.
“When the issue of moving to PDP came and when there was this question about what will the PDP get, if we are given governor, why they should take deputy, for me at that time, I told him if deputy will be the issue, let it go. Let them bring deputy and you go. In so far as they give you the ticket, go ahead. I sacrificed it,” Shuaibu told The Sun.
He further revealed, “I contributed money. I contributed $300,000. He collected $300,000 from me to say he was going to add to $700,000 to go and lobby them in Port Harcourt. But we later found out from the zonal PDP Chairman that he never gave them any money.”
“So, he even duped me (general laughter). And it took me like seven months to be able to pay back that money where I collected it from. I was paying installmentally to be able to pay that money. That was why I had to raise alarm because I was paying for money that they said was not used. And this money was not returned back. Till today, he didn’t return the money back. You can ask Chief Dan Orbih and Ogbeide-Ihama. I am calling names now.”
The fallout between Obaseki and Shuaibu deepened towards the end of their tenure, culminating in Shuaibu’s impeachment as deputy governor.
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