Members of the All Progressives Congress, Etsako West Chapter in Delta State, on Tuesday, protested the alleged planned return of the impeached deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, to the party.
The protesters who came from the 12 wards in the council area marched to the party secretariat to submit their petition against the move.
Presenting a communiqué on behalf of the APC stakeholders in Etsako West LGA, Yakubu Musa said Shaibu’s exit from the APC in 2020 brought peace and tranquility to the party, noting that the former deputy governor’s return would bring rancour and disunity to the party.
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Musa said, “We are protesting over an attempt by the impeached deputy governor, Philip Shaibu, to jump the boat and defect to the APC.
“The attempt is viewed seriously by members of APC as a calculated plan by Shaibu to bring rancour, disharmony, and unprecedented crisis into APC.”
Musa appealed to the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, Senator Adams Oshiomhole and the State Acting Chairman, Jaret Tenebe, not to allow the impeached deputy governor into APC, saying that Shaibu has no political value to add to the APC.
He added, “It is on record that Philip Shaibu has not won any election since he left APC for the PDP. He does not possess any electoral value that could warrant his readmittance into our great party.
“We call on our national leaders to hear our voice and help us keep the peace we currently enjoy in Edo APC.
“Any attempt to readmit Shaibu into APC is a direct invitation to crisis, fragmentation, disaffection, disenchantment, and disintegration.”
However, Shaibu has written to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, to obtain a complaint form to file a formal petition against the Chief Judge of Edo, Justice Daniel Okungbowa.
Shaibu, in a letter from the Chambers of B.I. Dakum and Co dated April 8, 2024, appealed to the CJN who doubles as Chairman of the National Judicial Council, for leave to obtain a complaint form to file a formal petition against Justice Okungbowa.
The letter signed by Barrister Adaze A. Emwanta, a former Commissioner for Information and Orientation to Governor Godwin Obaseki, seeks to institute a petition of abuse of office, official misconduct and desecration of an oath of office by the Edo Chief Judge.
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Emwanta added that the letter was to formally request a complaint form as prescribed under the Judicial Discipline Regulations 2017, to enable his client to file his complaint against the state Chief Judge.
The letter titled Re: Notice to Obtain a complaint form to file a formal complaint against Hon Justice Daniel Okungbowa, the Chief Judge of Edo State for abuse of office, official misconduct and desecrating his oath of office, reads in part:
“We write as Solicitors to Rt Hon. Philip Shaibu, who until this morning was Deputy Governor of Edo state.
“Rt Hon Philip Shaibu has instructed us to file a formal complaint to your Council against Hon Justice Daniel Okungbowa, the Chief Judge of Edo State for abuse of office, official misconduct and desecration of his oath of office.
“The purpose of this letter, therefore, is to formally request a complaint form prescribed under the Judicial Discipline Regulations 2017, to enable our client to file his complaint against the subject Judge.”
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