{"id":18888,"date":"2024-02-25T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/edo-guber-they-want-to-impeach-me-shaibu-cries-out\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T08:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T08:02:29","slug":"edo-guber-they-want-to-impeach-me-shaibu-cries-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/edo-guber-they-want-to-impeach-me-shaibu-cries-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo guber: They want to impeach me \u2013 Shaibu cries out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has said he is worried about a new scheme to remove him from office.<\/p>\n<p>He said the scheme was intensified after he was elected as a factional candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the upcoming governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu, the deputy governor of the state, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The returning officer in the PDP governorship primary and Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal had on Thursday announced Asue Ighodalo as the winner of the delegate election, having polled a total of 577 votes.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the parallel primaries that took place at the Benin residence of the Deputy Governor, the returning officer, Bartholomew Moses, declared Shaibu the winner, saying he won \u201cwith over 300 votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven as we speak, my team has been calling me that, \u2018Look at what these people are doing. They are saying they are going to impeach you; that you have gotten too far.\u2019 They are threatening to impeach me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I said, well, if fighting for my rights and all of us collectively fighting for my rights as in the constitution, triggers impeachment, so be it, because fighting for my rights and saying I must contest the election is my constitutional rights and cannot be taken by anybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if constitutional right is why they will now trigger impeachment, the courts are there; they will interpret it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Edo guber: They want to impeach me \u2013 Shaibu cries out<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has said he is worried about a new scheme to remove him from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4709,15,3,4710],"tags":[2872,253,180,249,4711],"class_list":["post-18888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edo-guber","category-news","category-politics","category-shaibu","tag-edo","tag-guber","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-shaibu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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