The Court docket-reinstated deputy governor of Edo State, Comrade Philip Shaibu, on Monday, resumed workplace, directing his private employees to return to their obligation posts beneath him.
This was disclosed by means of a viral three-minute-long undated video posted on many social media platforms on Monday.
He additionally directed employees of his workplace to return to work instantly, and declared that failure to conform would end in acceptable sanctions, whereas he warned that any financial institution conducting enterprise with the workplace of the deputy governor of Edo State with out his express approval, can be doing so at its personal danger.
Shaibu stated: “My good individuals of Edo State and fellow Nigerians, in the present day I come earlier than you to reiterate my dedication to serving the fantastic individuals of Edo State. My reinstatement because the deputy governor of Edo State is a testomony to the divine grace of God Almighty, and the steadfast prayers of all Nigerians, for which I’m actually grateful.
“In current weeks, the Federal Excessive Court docket (FHC) in Abuja (presided over by Justice James Omotosho), reinstated me because the deputy governor of Edo State. Acknowledging the illegality of the impeachment of April 8, 2024.
“Upon my arrival in Benin Metropolis on July 18, 2024, a tragic occasion occurred, as an assassination try was made on my life. Fortunately, the bullet missed its mark. Sadly, it hit an armed policeman (Inspector Onuh Akoh of No. 45 Police Cellular Drive, Abuja), who was assigned to the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 21, 2024 election in Edo State.
“I’ve been knowledgeable that many suspects have been apprehended, a few of whom have offered essential confessional statements.”
The embattled deputy governor, who just lately defected to the principle opposition APC within the State, additionally revealed his disagreeable experiences since his reinstatement by the courtroom, particularly on the refusal of Governor Godwin Obaseki of the governing Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) to cooperate with him.
Shaibu stated: “Following my return to workplace, I’ve formally requested the governor’s approval of the reinstatement of my aides. Nevertheless, I’m but to obtain a response from him.
“Additionally, I just lately communicated with the governor about my journey to United States of America to take part within the Afemai World Congress (of indigenes of Edo North Senatorial District and their pals), and to go to our athletes that had been competing within the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.
“Right this moment, I’m issuing a transparent directive to all employees inside the deputy governor’s workplace, who haven’t but returned to work, to renew forthwith. Failure to conform will end in acceptable sanctions.
“In keeping with the judgement, the workplace of the deputy governor was by no means vacant. On this regard, all transactions that will have been completed in my absence stay unlawful, null, void, and of no impact by any means. I need to make it recognized that any financial institution conducting enterprise with the workplace of the deputy governor of Edo State, with out my express approval, does so at its personal danger.
“Nonetheless, I need to reassure my expensive individuals of Edo State that I’m again in my function because the deputy governor of Edo State, able to carry out my duties, fulfil my tasks, and ship on the guarantees of democracy.”
In the meantime, the Edo State authorities has reacted to the event with the State’s Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Chris Nehikhare, stating that Godwins Omobayo remained the deputy governor of the state, whereas describing Shaibu as an impersonator, who must be disregarded.
He stated: “It has come to the eye of the Edo State authorities that the previous Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, has been finishing up correspondence with completely different establishments and organisations, each inside and out of doors the state, in a transparent case of impersonation.
“Within the curiosity of the security of those organisations, we need to restate that Shaibu isn’t the Deputy Governor of Edo State, and each correspondence from him in that regard must be disregarded and regarded a forgery.
“The problem of his purported reinstatement remains to be lively in courtroom, and the subsequent listening to for the 2 separate motions filed by the State Authorities and the Edo Home of Meeting, difficult the purported reinstatement by Justice James Omotosho of the Federal Excessive Court docket is fastened for twenty-four September, 2024.
“The state, by means of the Legal professional-Normal of Edo State, and the Edo Home of Meeting by their legal professionals, Oluwole Iyamu, SAN, and Ken Mozia, SAN, respectively, had within the motions sought an order for a keep of the execution of the purported reinstatement and an order suspending the judgment and restraining Shaibu from parading himself or attending any official operate as deputy governor, pending the listening to and dedication of the attraction.”
