By Seyi Babalola
Ahead of Edo State’s governorship election on September 21, former deputy governor Philip Shaibu has distanced himself from the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate, Asue Ighodalo.
According to Channels TV, Shaibu, who spoke on Sunday on the sidelines of the 2024 Father’s Day celebration at Saint Paul’s Catholic Church in Benin City, said he likes to support a homeboy.
Shaibu, who was impeached by the Edo State House of Assembly a few months ago, said that the PDP candidate is an outsider.
“Today, I came in as a homeboy. We have only two homeboys in the major political parties in Edo State. One is in Labour, and one is in APC, and I choose to follow another homeboy in the APC.
“The man they are parading in the PDP is an outsider, and we have also agreed that there is no more godfatherism in Edo.
“So, the man the PDP is trying to portray in Edo now is the godson of Obaseki, and there is no way a godson will now be governor of Edo.”
