By John Ugo
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Comrade Philip Shaibu, has described as a fallacy, the statement credited to the party’s National Vice Chairman, South-South, Chief Dan Orbih that he was allegedly duped by his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki to the tune of $300,000.
Already, the revelation and denial have further deepened the crisis rocking the ruling People’s Democratic Party ,(PDP), in Edo state
Chief Dan Orbih, had told some PDP chiftains at his Ogbona country home that Governor obaseki had lied to the world that he paid leaders of the party before he was accepted to fly the ticket of the party for the 2020 gubernatorial election, which he won.
Orbih also disclosed that the Deputy Governor told him that the governor, Godwin Obaseki collected the sum of $300,000 from him with a view to transmitting same to the party which Chief Dan Orbih denied knowledge of, let alone receiving it.
But the Deputy Governor Comrade Shuaibu in reaction described the allegation as ‘absolutely false’ in a statement on Friday.
“It has come to my attention that the National Vice Chairman, South-South of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih, has made an absolutely false allegation purporting that I had given the Governor of Edo State, His Excellency, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the sum of $300,000 to hand over to Orbih as part of some sort of political settlement regarding the Edo State chapter of the PDP.”
“Nothing can be farther from the truth. I want to state without equivocation that no such transaction ever occurred. It even betrays reasons that I, as Deputy Governor, would have to send the State Governor, my boss, on an errand to hand money to a party leader.”
“It is an aberration of the highest proportion that deserves no contemplation,” he said.
