Obaseki Locks Shaibu’s Office As Crisis Deepens

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Tension heightened in Benin City yesterday, as Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, stopped his deputy, Philip Shaibu, from entering his office in the

Babatunde was said to have told the deputy governor that it was a directive from above, adding that the chief security officer of Government House, Williams Wabba, would be in a better position to explain.

The report said that all entreaties by the security operatives to him to “kindly go back and call the governor if he wanted to see his principal” were rebuffed.An aide to Obaseki who does not want his name mentioned said the deputy governor only came to the Government House to make trouble. It would be recalled that at the peak of the crisis between the two, Obaseki had relocated the office of the deputy governor outside government to No 7, Dennis Osadebey Avenue.

But Shaibu in a statement penultimate week withdrew the suit due to intervention by traditional and religious leaders, particularly the Catholic Archbishop of Benin, Archbishop Augustine Akubeze.

 

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