Shaibu rubbishes the office of deputy governor

• Closes the gates for future opportunities for incoming DGs
• He’s displayed a crass lack of incompetence, strategy, loyalty, calculation and tact

Shaibu has no doubt, rubbished the exalted office of deputy governor; he has misused, abused privileges accrued the office, betrayed trust, he has popood on the sanctity of the office, dragged it on the ground, reduced the attractiveness attached to the office, making it uninteresting; with elements like Shaibu in the history books, a governor and his deputy will now have to watch their backs, suspicious of every move each party makes.

To have used uncomplimentary statements to describe the 7-year productive administration of Obaseki, the same government Shaibu serves as DG is the height of recklessness, incompetence and desperation.

What public sympathy does Shaibu intend to gain from his irrational dispositions? 

Where and how did Shaibu get it wrong, could it have been his desperation to succeed Obaseki; could it have been his nocturnal engagements with opposition forces to outsmart the governor; it is a devilish, regrettable and unpardonable act that the deputy governor will forever carry on his neck like a tattoo, accompanying him everywhere he goes.

A spoon-fed deputy governor who, despite his boss’ magnanimity towards him, leveraged on his tall, impossible desire to be governor, failed in the coup against the Edo State Governor.

Shaibu experienced the greatest fortunes in his natural life under Obaseki; one time, he was acting governor, another time, he managed the IGRs of the 18 LGAs, he was in the forefront of the distribution of palliatives in the COVID era, under Obaseki, Shaibu now own more than 25 petrol station outlets across Edo State; he has vowed to use the proceeds from sales of petroleum products to prosecute his tall ambition in 2024.

Shaibu’s unorthodox and crass means to remain in Osadebey Avenue 2024 onward, is the greatest undoing by any deputy governor in Edo; Edo deputy governors from 1999, were loyal to their bosses; they never for once, moved on their bosses and never described their own administration with reckless, uncomplimentary statements.

It is unbelievable that Shaibu who was carried on the back by Obaseki all along, in the 2020 political war now rubbishes the office of deputy governor, closing the gates to future opportunities for incoming deputies; no doubt Shaibu has displayed a crass lack of incompetence, strategy, loyalty, calculation and tact in his tall and impossible request to govern Edo.

N’Edo Gha Ma.