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Shaibu maintained that he won the Edo State Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship primary because he had 381 delegates, who would have voted for him if they were not shut out of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin where the exercise took place on February 22.
That is where the fight started.” “He (Obaseki) said, ‘You cannot contest because I have my plans’.
If the governor had shown leadership, maybe I wouldn’t have contested because I am not a desperate person.
Now, the court has ruled that the delegates I had were the authentic delegates and the ones they brought were fake.
Shaibu said he would have dropped his governorship ambition if Obaseki was reasonable and and spoke to him well.
“A week to the primary, I lost some and had 381.
So I brought those 381 on the day of the primary but they were refused accreditation.
He noted that he would have allowed the governor to have his way in order to preserve their relationship..
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