Edo: ‘I’m not in competition with you’ – Shaibu tells Obaseki

Edo: ‘I’m not in competition with you’ – Shaibu tells Obaseki

 Deputy Governor of Edo State Philip Shaibu has said he is
not in competition with Governor Godwin Obaseki.

 

This followed the governor’s decision to pay the hospital
bills of the attacked players and officials of Nigeria Premier Football League,
NPFL, side, Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure.

 

Armed Robbers had attacked a bus conveying Sunshine Stars
along the Ore-Benin Expressway while en route to Benin for a scheduled NPFL
Match against Bendel Insurance.

 

A ball boy was shot, while the players and other officials
were highly traumatised and disoriented after the attack.

 

Shaibu had visited the players and promised to foot their
hospital bills. But Obaseki also pledged that the state government would foot
the hospital bills of the injured players and officials.

 

Reacting to Obaseki’s gesture, Shaibu said he would no
longer foot the bills of the players and officials.

 

A statement by Shaibu’s Chief Press Secretary, Ebomhiana
Musa, on Sunday evening, said: “Our attention has been drawn to the fact that
His Excellency, the Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has directed that
the medical bill of the injured Ball Boy and Kit Manager of Sunshine Stars FC
of Akure be paid by Edo State government.

 

“Consequently, the state’s Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Philip
Shaibu, has withdrawn his earlier promise to pay the medical bill.

 

“The office of Governor and Deputy Governor are one. We are
not in any way in competition.”

 

Obaseki and Shaibu have been at loggerheads despite their
alleged reconciliation.

 

Amid the face-off, Shaibu declared interest to run for governor
of the state but Obaseki said members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
will determine his fate.

Source: Edo: ‘I’m not in competition with you’ – Shaibu tells Obaseki

 - NigerianEye
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