Shaibu derides Obaseki after election loss, says he couldn’t win his LG

Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has taken a jab at Governor Godwin Obaseki following the recent governorship election results.

Shaibu expressed that he feels vindicated after Obaseki lost his local government area to the All Progressives Congress (APC), emphasizing that he bears no ill will towards the outgoing governor.

In an interview with Arise TV on Monday, Shaibu remarked on Obaseki’s electoral history, stating, “I feel vindicated; even the governor couldn’t win his local government. I won my unit, ward, and local government. Where are the governor’s results? He has never won; we always assisted him.”

Shaibu also called for Obaseki to apologize to the people of Edo State, saying, “What is left now is for him to go back and start begging and apologizing to the people of Edo State, and he has a lot of them that he needs to go and apologize to.”

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The Independent National Electoral Commission announced the APC candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo, as the new governor after he secured 291,667 votes, surpassing the Peoples Democratic Party’s Asue Ighodalo, who received 247,274 votes. Olumide Akpata from the Labour Party trailed with 22,763 votes. Notably, Obaseki lost in his own local government, Oredo Local Government Area, to the APC.

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