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ASUU Extends Strike By 2 Weeks

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Tosin Olatokunbo
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By Uche Mbah
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), after  a closed door meeting Sunday, has, reportedly, extended  its ongoing strike action by another  two months, meaning that students may  stay  home longer than anticipated.
This magazine gathered that the Union was piqued by the Federal Government’s claim that the University -produced payment portal failed integrity test.
ASUU had, as part of its demands, insisted that the Government’s payment portal is cumbersome snd ineffective, and demanded Government use the one approved by them.
According to ASUU sources, the strike extension was to provide enough time for amicable settlements to avert further strikes.

Abba Kyari’s Wife Collapses In Court

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Abba Kyari and Co in Court
By Uche Mbah
Mrs Ramotu Abba Kyari, wife of embattled, suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari, who is facing drug trafficking charges in an Abuja High Court, slumped and fainted Monday when her husband’s bail application was deferred by Justice Emeka Nwite, the Presiding Judge.
Apart from money
laundering, Abba Kyari is standing trial for drug related offences.
The court was expected to rule on his bail application as applied by his counsels. But the Court Monday deferred the ruling on the bail application for Kyari and six others.
When it became obvious that he will not be immediately granted bail, his wife collapsed as he was being taken away from the court by operatives of Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agents.
Details later…

PDP Control: Wike, Obaseki Go To War

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Tosin Olatokunbo
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Nyesom Wike

By Tosin Olatokunbo

Governors Nyesom Wike and Godwin Obaseki were once strong political allies until recently when they were set apart due to next year’s presidential election.

Obaseki, The Source magazine recalled, rode on the support of Wike to contest under the PDP in the governorship election in 2020 after he was forced out of his former party, the All Progressives Congress, APC by his former benefactor and former chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole.

In fact, Governor Obaseki had to visit Wike at the Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers state, at a point to enlist his support before he finally dumped the APC.

Obaseki later won the election.

But the centre can no longer hold for the former allies who appear to have gone their separate ways due to 2023 presidential politicking in the party.

The magazine learnt that trouble started after Wike unsuccessfully tried to seize the party structure in Edo state from Obaseki, who last week said no one would push him out of the PDP.

The Edo governor had at a meeting of PDP stakeholders in the state accused some party leaders of treating him and his supporters as strangers in the party.

But the real problem came to light after the Rivers helmsman accused Edo state Deputy Governor Phillips Shuaibu of threatening the PDP last Saturday.

Shuaibu, while speaking at the same fora warned that he would bless his supporters out of the PDP, thus upsetting Wike who called him all manner of names, including that he dressed inappropriately by wearing ‘Kharki’ as the deputy governor.

Wike dragged Shuaibu so much so that he also described him as an ingrate, for daring to threaten the PDP which gave him and his principal, Obaseki the chance to contest the governorship election under its platform.

The Edo helmsman has now fired back in what watchers of politics in the country described as an equal measure of Wike’s  diatribe against Shuaibu, accusing his counterpart in Rivers of desperation to clinch PDP presidential ticket for next year’s election.

They, however, warned that the dog fight may further polarised the PDP and further weakens it as it plans to take over power next year.

Obaseki said in a statement he personally signed that Wike had become blinded by his presidential ambition that he doesn’t care if the party is destroyed.

Speaking at an event in Port Harcourt, Rivers state last weekend, Wike described Shuaibu as indisciplined, calling on Iyiorcha Ayu, the national Chairman of the PDP to discipline him for his action.

Reacting in the state, Obaseki said Wike was being driven by the inordinate ambition of emerging president next year.
The Edo governor said Wike’s outbursts against his deputy was unnecessary.

According to Obaseki, “the recent personal attacks by His Excellency, the Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Nyesom Wike, against my Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu is, to say the least, most unfortunate and totally uncalled for,” the statement reads.

Obaseki said “his Excellency, Governor Wike should have taken a cue from the manner in which the National Chairman of our party, Sen. Dr Iyorchia Ayu, responded to my deputy’s remarks, as a conscientious leader who is able to show empathy and consideration.

“It is necessary to recall at this point that a political solution gave rise to the emergence of Chief Dan Orbih first as Acting and then as Substantive National Vice Chairman, South-South, of our party, when Chief Emma Odidi resigned that position to allow Chief Orbih to ascend,” Obaseki said.

“It is, therefore, curious why this type of political solution is no longer tenable to resolve the political impasse in Edo State PDP,” the governor said, adding that Wike rather than Shuaibu should be sanctioned for issuing threats to the party.
He voted some instances. According to Obaseki “on September 16, 2018, Governor Wike threatened the party that there would be grave consequences if it moved the National Convention from Port Harcourt in the run-up to the 2019 presidential election.

“On September 12, 2019, Governor Wike also threatened to cause trouble for the party over the emergence of Hon. Ndudi Elumelu as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives.

Obaseki sccused Wike of becoming too desperate over his presidential ambition, warning that Edo will not be allowed to become his conquered territory.

“It clearly amounts to the delusion of grandeur, for any one man to nurse the idea that he owns or has more stake in the PDP and everyone should pander to him.

“We are all equal stakeholders in the party and an aggregate of the ideas, opinions, and contributions of all leaders and members should form the position of the party and not the view of one individual or a select few,” Obaseki said.

“Edo State cannot and will not be procured for anyone’s personal ambition.

“We will join the great leaders of our party across the country to build PDP into a strong, large, and indomitable party that will win next year’s presidential election.

“We are all equal stakeholders in the party and an aggregate of the ideas, opinions, and contributions of all leaders and members should form the position of the party and not the view of one individual or a select few,” the Edo governor said .

Former Senate President Laments N2.5trn Petrol Subsidy

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By James Orji

Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President has bemoaned the recent petrol scarcity in the country blaming insincerity on the part of the federal government for the problem.

Saraki said the whopping N2.5 trillion earmarked for fuel subsidy in this year’s budget is over-bloated, amidst effort on the part of the government to make petrol available across the country.

Due to the unavailability of the product, the price rose to as high as N300 per litre from N165 per litre much to the criticism of many Nigerians on the failure of the authority to arrest the problem.

The senator spoke following President Muhammadu Buhari request to the National Assembly to amend the 2022 Budget to accommodate the amount.

But the former Senate President said the country may be subsidizing petrol for neighbouring countries who he said are the major beneficiary,  noting that fuel consumption in the country should not be more than 35 million litres daily rather than the 70 million claimed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

He said the fuel subsidy regime is riddled with financial racket calling on the Buhari’s administration to arrest the situation.

Recall that NNPC managing Director, Mele Kyari had in May 2021 steered controversy after he claimed that the country consumed over 100 million litres per day in June of that year.

Kyari had told the House of representative Committee on Finance that Nigeria “consumed up to 103 million litres per day, I don’t know. Actually, I flagged this when I saw the figure. It is actually from me in a public fora three days ago and I still remember, I said that, we see evacuation of 103 million litres.

“Evacuation is not consumption, but it is very very abnormal. Even the average for that month comes back to 62. So, I found it very very strange that, we can have that high number and we are investigating it. And I am sure we are going to get to the bottom of it.

“We looked at the capacities of all the depots in the country to see is it really practical? We have depots that have no capacity to do this and we see these high numbers.

“I have taken this. I can say it openly here, I have taken this matter to all the agencies of government, like the EFCC and ICPC so that, they can follow up on it. So, we looked at it as an abnormal practice that has happened”.

According to Saraki, “we cannot be consuming more than 30 million to 40 million litres and it is obvious there is racketeering in the oil sector. Some people are benefitting and there is no way we are consuming 70 million litres. We are in a problem because a few people are benefiting but the politicians are fixated on the 2023 elections.

“We must look at what Nigerians are going through and change the way subsidy is being managed; not subsidise other countries.

“The Federal Government is not being fair to the masses and the smuggling of fuel must stop while the true situation of things must be uncovered. It is not about the individual but the federal government must be held accountable. We must subsidise the actual consumption in the country”.

Obiano Wants Anambra Airport Named After Him; First Rain Devastates Structures

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Cargo Airport

By Charles Igbo

In an unprecedented decision, out-going Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano,  and his State Executive Council Members, approved that the  Anambra International Passenger/ Cargo Airport be named after him.

The decision was taken at one of its final Executive Council meetings where he reminded them that he remains in charge until the midnight of March 15, 2022.

The process which led to the decision to rename the Airport waa like a comic relief, short of calling it childish.

In a viral video on WhatsApp, an Exco member, who wore a white suit, stood up, microphone in hand, and reminded the Governor and members that they had started discussions on the renaming of the Airport after  Obiano, but did not quite conclude. As he went round and round in what would pass as psycophancy at its worst, Governor Obiano cut him short, and took over the job of an umpire in an issue he was central to.

In a magisterial voice, he called for an on-the-spot vote – for, and/or against the re-naming the Airport after him. “Those who are in favour (of re-naming the Airport after him), indicate by raising up your hands”, he bellowed. The majority, of course, raised their hands. And even though the outcome was obvious, he asked those against to do the same. About two people, who appeared not very sure of themselves, did. The majority carried the vote.

The Airport, newly built, commissioned and operational, is a legacy project of the Obiano Government who insists he borrowed no kobo from anywhere to build.

Governor Willy Obiano of Anambra State
Governor Willy Obiano of Anambra State

Even then, the integrity of some of the structures has come into question. The very first rain in the State, devastated a number of the structures. Roofs were blown away amongst some other noticeable shabby jobs.

Not a few people have raised an uproar over the suggestion/decision that the Airport be re-named after Obiano. They ask if he built it with his personal money, and remind him it is, at once, inappropriate and untidy for him to even think of re-naming the Airport after himself.

They have warned the incoming Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, who Obiano brags is his “project from beginning to end”, not to dare agree to re-naming the Airport after Obiano.

The International Airport is located at Obiano’s Community, Aguleri.

2023: Chidoka Demands Third Party Performance, Integrity Test On INEC’s Technology Systems

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To ensure credible elections in 2023, former Minister of Aviation, Chief Osita Chidoka, has called on partners of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to encourage the conduct of third-party testing of INEC technology platform to ascertain its robustness, integrity, and performance ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Chidoka stressed that vast improvement in the use of technology by INEC is key to the success of the 2023 election foreshadowed by concerns about national conventions on zoning and equity

The PDP chieftain and founder of Unlock Naija, spoke during a conference on  US Policy And Nigeria’s 2023 elections held on Friday, March 11, 2022, at the Kenney Auditorium at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Washington DC.

He emphasized that third party in the mould of their top consultancy firms operating in Nigeria conducting performance, functionality, reliability, security, usability, scalability, recoverability, load as well as stress testing to ascertain the fitness of INEC’s technology platform is a critical requirement.

“The experiences of failures and downtimes affecting voter accreditation in Anambra and FCT municipal elections makes the testing and certification essential”, Chidoka said.

Chidoka however praised INEC’s technology adoption and continuous innovation against the political party’s apathy towards technology. He described the political party’s slow adoption of technology as the weak link in the political process.

“It is worrisome that a government agency, INEC, is leading technology adoption while the political parties are lagging and making little or no effort to adopt technology in their processes,” Chidoka lamented.

Responding to issues raised about the crisis of legitimacy posed by the consistent decline in voter turnout since the 2011 election, Chidoka argued that a decrease in voter turnout could be due to some factors.

These factors he said, include the increasing number of voters in the register without a corresponding clean up to reflect death, double registration and other issues that contribute to the growth of the voter register.

“INEC cannot determine Nigeria’s election voter turnout until the voter register is cleaned up through removal of dead people, de-duplication and clean up of the register started since 2011,” Chidoka stressed.

The conference was organised by Nextier Consulting, in partnership with the School of Advanced and International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, the School of International Service at the American University, and the Center for Peace, Democracy and Development at the University of Massachusetts.

It was organised to discuss ways to manage Nigeria’s increasing fragility in the face of growing national security crisis arising from widespread kidnappings, banditry, multiple ongoing insurrections, rising secessionist movements, intensifying farmer-herder conflicts, and elite struggles over control of political offices.

Speakers at the conference include an array of US academics like Carl Levan, Peter Lewis, Darren Kew, US Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of African Affairs, Michael Gonzales and Brig. Gen Saleh Bala (Rtd). Nigeria Civil Society had Dr Hussaini Abdu, Ayisha Osori, Uge Timipanipre and Cynthia Mbamalu who join online as panellists at the conference.

Other panellists included Bishop Mattew Kukah, Oge Onubogu, Kole Shettima and DJ Switch. The conversations focused on how US policy can best strengthen democratic institutions in Nigeria and help the country manage its perfect storm of security crises, and help affirm commitment to civilian electoral rule in Nigeria.

Angry, PDP Rebukes Buhari, Calls Him, APC, Clueless, Rudderless, Arrogant In Failure

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Debo Ologunagba - PDP Publicity Secretary

In its most strongly-worded attack on President Muhammadu Buhari and his Government so far, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  dismissed them in choice, negative, words.

“The PDP asserts that President Buhari presides over the most rudderless, corrupt, disunited, disorganised, arrogant political party and Government in the history of our country, a fact that is already established by Nigerians across board,” the Party said in a Press statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Sunday, March 13, 2022.

The PDP was reacting to Buhari’s advice to his Party, the All Progressives Congress,  not to be like the PDP which, in 2015, lost power to the APC because of its internal crisis. He advised the APC to learn from the loss of the PDP, and not be like it.

Buhari is in London, but the APC has been engulfed in serious leadership crisis which is threatening its scheduled National Convention against March 26, 2022.

Said the PDP: “If the President were ‘present’ as President and party leader, he should have known that the  Party that is “enfeebled and adrift”, plagued by disunity, mismanagement and corruption, arrogance of power and self-aggrandizement which he alluded to, is not the PDP but the evidently mismanaged and mutating crisis-ridden APC.”

Following is the full text of the statement entitled:

Buhari, APC, Perfect Examples of Arrogance in Failure- PDP

“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration as a perfect example of arrogance in failure.

“The PDP asserts that President Buhari presides over the most rudderless, corrupt, disunited, disorganized, arrogant political party and government in the history of our country; a fact that is already established by Nigerians across board.

“PDP’s position is predicated on the comments by President Buhari, who in his lame attempt to address the irreconcilable infighting in his fizzling APC fixated on the PDP, apparently discomfited by the renewed massive popularity of the PDP among Nigerians ahead of the 2023 general elections.

“The Buhari administration is a certified failure which has brought unprecedented economic hardship, chaos, escalated insecurity, a state of anomie and hopelessness in our country in the last six years.

“If Mr. President were ‘present’ as President and party leader, he should have known that the party that is “enfeebled and adrift”, plagued by ‘disunity, mismanagement and corruption”; “arrogance of power” and “self-aggrandizement” which he alluded to, is not the PDP but the evidently mismanaged and mutating crisis ridden APC.

“It is important to educate Mr. President on the arrogance of power in his refusal to timeously appoint an economic team or listen to wise counsel on the economy and security. This is why he completely mismanaged our national affairs and turned our nation into the poverty capital of the world and the third country with the highest level of terrorism according to the World Terrorism Index.

“Such arrogance of power is manifesting in President Buhari and APC’s refusal to accept failure for the near collapse of our economy from the $550 billion economy (largest in Africa and 26th globally) handed over to them in 2015 by the PDP; the fall of the naira from about N197 to a dollar to almost N600 today and the hike in petrol price from N87 per liter in 2015 to between N300 andN400 per liter today.

“In addition to this, the price of diesel which is a critical component in the productive sector of the economy now stands at inconceivable N700 per liter under the APC.

“Is it not arrogance of power that informed the Buhari-led APC administration to import contaminated fuel, induce agonizing fuel scarcity on our citizens and yet had the effrontery to tell Nigerians that “heaven will not fall” over the fuel situation?

“The same arrogance of power accounted for the repeated refusal by the APC administration to obey Court Orders; for President Buhari’s repeated refusal to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill until he was pressured by the PDP and Nigerians as well as his constant disdain toward the people in repeatedly refusing to address the nation on critical issues, notably during the October 2020 EndSARS protest and the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The arrogance and impunity of the APC administration also accounted for its refusal to prosecute APC leaders indicted for corruption; the barefaced denial that no one was killed in the EndSARS protest despite national and international evidence of bloody massacre of our youths at the Lekki Tollgate as well as the failure to account for the billions of naira Covid-19 Funds stolen by APC leaders.

“This is in addition to the recent arrogant, corrupt and criminal removal of electricity subsidy without reference to Nigerians among other thoughtless and inhumane actions of the APC government.

“Moreover, it is ludicrous that Mr. President who confirmed that the APC as a party of irreconcilable political warlords, is bedeviled by “the infighting we are seeing” instead of the expected “robust debate on the issues that matter”, is looking elsewhere for a lesson in “disunity, mismanagement and corruption”.

“Mr. President has so arrogantly mismanaged the APC that it is now plagued by two illegal national chairmen, multiple structures in States; enfeebled to the extent that it cannot conduct a valid National Convention or produce legitimate candidates for elections, with its activities no longer recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“Since President Buhari has now agreed that government should not be “a vehicle for self-aggrandizement to be held at all costs” the PDP urges him to assist his party to wind up as Nigerians are now rallying on the platform of the united, cohesive, focused and dependable PDP in our mission to Rescue and Rebuild our nation from the arrogance and misrule of the Buhari APC government.”

Clergyman Nabbed By NDLEA For Carrying Drugs

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By Gideon Njoku

His mission on earth is dual. On one hand, he is a winner of souls for Christ. He carries the Holy Bible. And preaches the Gospel to his congregation. But on the other hand, too, he is a devil’s workshop. He deceives his congregation, and destroys souls.

Rev. Ugochukwu Emmanuel’s double life has been exposed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

Ugochukwu is the General Overseer of Christ Living Hope Church which Headquarters is at Isuaniocha, Mgbakwu road, Awka North Local Government Area, Anambra State. He also has branches  in Abuja.

But this last Monday, the NDLEA exposed who he really is. A carrier of illicit drug. A destroyer of souls.

Ugochukwu was nabbed by Operatives of the Agency at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.

He was on his way to Nairobi, Kenya, when he was caught by the Operatives.  On him were 54   “sticks” of illicit substance.

His religious crusade in Nairobi was scheduled to last for three weeks. And, on interrogation by the NDLEA, he confessed that he packed the substance to use for the period his crusade would last.

Confirming the story, NDLEA  Spokesman, Femi Babafemi  said: “When tested, the 54 sticks proved positive to Cannabis. The Clergyman confessed during a preliminary interview that  he packed the quantity of illicit substance on his body to use during his three weeks crusade in Kenya.”

Noted an eye witness: “He needed the substance to get high and be able to win souls for Christ in Nairobi.”

It is not known, yet, the state of his congregation in Nigeria, or of those who packaged the Crusade he was going to.

Newly Elected Chairmen, Councillors In Ekiti Lament Over Poor Remuneration

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Ayodele Oni
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By Ayodele Oni

Ekiti State Chapter of the  Association of Local Government Chairmen,(ALGON) is set to meet Governor Kayode Fayemi over poor condition of service for the elected officials of the third tier of Government.

The Chairmen and Councillors were elected during last year’s December Local Government election for 16 constitutionally recognized Councils and nine Local Council Development Areas, (LCDA).

While the Chairmen were sworn in within a week of their election, the Councillors were inaugurated last month, precisely, February 14,  over two months after their election.

It was gathered that the Councillors were planning to embark on a peaceful protest over delay in their inauguration before the exercise took place.

When their salary and other allowances were to be released through the office of Chief of Staff to the Governor, it was learnt that they fell short of that of their immediate predecesors in office.

Further checks revealed that elected and appointees at the Third Tier of Government under the administrations of former Governors Segun Oni and Ayo Fayose enjoyed better renumerations than the present administration of Dr Kayode Fayemi.

Chairmen under the present administration are on salary of less than N300, 000, Vice Chairman, N250,000 while Councillors take home monthly pay is about N100,000 after various deductions.

Monthly security vote of Council Chairmen has also been reduced to a paltry sum of N300,000, despite the high spate of insecurity in the state.

Governor Fayemi has not hidden his opposition to the existence of Local Councils, as the Third Tier of Government in Nigeria.

Even as the Chairman, of the Nigeria Governors Forum, (NGF), he has strongly canvassed against the autonomy of local government, saying in the type of Nigeria’s democracy, state and Federal Government should be federating units.

It was further learnt that with the creation of additional LCDAs by the present administration, constitutionally recognized Local Councils are in for more troubles.

The misfortunes of the councils are further compounded by their inability to generate funds internally.

Many Local Governments in the state cannot generate N100,000 in a month, while the amount being generated is being embezzled by revenue officials that refuse to account for money in their care.

Some of the elected Chairmen, according to further investigation now go about in their personal vehicles as their Local Government cannot afford to buy official cars for them.

The Chairmen have to revert to the Commissioner for Local Government over any contract that is above N100,000.

These and more are some of the issues to be tabled before Governor Fayemi by the newly elected officials of the state chapter of ALGON anytime they are opportuned to meet with him.

Wike Taunts Shaibu, Edo DG; “Look At A Deputy Governor Wearing Khaki”; Asks, “Who Is His Father?”

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By Adesina Soyooye

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo State Chapter, boiled over on Friday, March 11, 2022, when the no-nonsense-taking Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, waded in.

Speaking at a commissioning ceremony in  Rivers State, Wike taunted the Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, for daring to threaten the PDP.

Shaibu had, while speaking on a National Television, threatened the PDP. “There is an alternative to the Party”, he said.

But an evidently shocked Wike took Shaibu on for his audacity, and taunted him; ” Look at a Deputy Governor wearing khaki. Then, he asked: “Who is his father?”

Querying Shaibu’s new found audacity, Wike told the story of how Shaibu knelt down, begging the PDP to accommodate them in the Party, only for Shaibu to now have the guts to threaten the Party, talking about alternative.

Shaibu and his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki, had been denied a second term ticket by the All Progressives Congress, APC, then, under the Chairmanship of Adams Oshiomhole, a former Governor of Edo State. That action pushed Obaseki and Shaibu out of APC, and to the PDP. But it, also, marked the end of Oshiomhole’s Chairmanship of the APC. He was sacked, unceremoniously, by President Muhammadu Buhari for that and other sundry issues.

The first place Obaseki and Shaibu ran to, as soon as they were denied the ticket, was  Government House, Porthacourt, Rivers State, to see Wike. The PDP not only accommodated them, but went overboard to give them the ticket which earned them a second term in office.

Remembering how both men ran helter-skelter begging to be accommodated by the PDP, and the tension the Party struggled to douse  among its other aspirants so as to accommodate both men, Wike couldn’t understand where Shaibu was coming from. He couldn’t understand what gave a Deputy Governor the guts to threaten a National Party. And Wike threatened that Shaibu will face serious disciplinary action.

Edo Deputy Gov Shuaibu
Shuaibu

To see to that, the Governor said he has petitioned the National Chairman of the PDP against Shaibu, insisting that Shaibu’s utterances were unprecedented.

Wike: “He (Shaibu) is threatening the Party that there is an alternative to the PDP. This is the same Deputy Governor that knelt down to beg for us to give them the umbrella. Today, he has the effrontery to threaten the PDP. What a shame!

“These were the same people when they were denied the ticket by ordinary APC, ran to PDP to beg for umbrella. A Deputy Governor is wearing khaki.

“When they were denied ticket under the APC, they were running helter-skelter begging everybody to give them the umbrella. We went and ensured that they won that election.

“Today, that Deputy Governor will be ranting, A Deputy Governor! A Deputy Governor will come on the television to tell the PDP that there is alternative.

“I have written to the National Chairman of the Party. If they don’t constitute a Disciplinary Committee against the Deputy Governor, I will invoke the sections of the Party and ensure they discipline the Deputy Governor.

“He lost his election during the election. It is unfortunate!

“I have never seen a Deputy Governor, come out of the Television to threaten the Party. Who is his father?

“Now that he has started the trouble, let him wait. We will make sure he never rests.

“How can you come and threaten a whole Party when we are there as Governors? It won’t work. And it will never work.”

A couple of months ago, there were speculations that Deputy Governor Shaibu was, allegedly, having some problems with Governor Obaseki over appointments, and could be headed back to the APC. But they remained what they were – mere speculations.

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