The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has mocked the state governor, Godwin Obaseki, describing him as an ingrate who bit the hands that fed him.
Shaibu, in a chat with Arise TV, while reacting to the outcome of the 2024 governorship election in Edo State, said he has been vindicated against those who claimed he can’t win elections.
Speaking on Obaseki, Shaibu said he does not hold the outgoing governor as an enemy, but he is glad about the outcome of the Edo governorship polls, which ended in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shaibu said it is now clear to the whole world that Obaseki can’t win elections on his own, adding that the outgoing Edo State Governor has always been helped by those around him to win elecions.
The Deputy Governor mocked Obaseki for not only losing the election, but also failing to win his local government area for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He advised Obaseki to start begging and apologizing to the people of Edo State.
“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. 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,” Shaibu said.