Mr Shaibu said his action is not anti-party.
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“The governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, says that everybody has the right to support whoever he wants to support, but he also forgot that he doesn’t have the right to stop anybody from whom he wants to support. But Asue Ighodalo, a Lagos-based lawyer and banker who is Mr Obaseki’s preferred successor, got the PDP ticket instead of him.
“I will support a homeboy. I came into politics to contest as the governor of Edo State because I need the government to return to homeboys – people who understand our plight, people who understand what the people are feeling—even the United Nations talks about the need for assessment. We don’t want outsiders, we have experimented with outsiders, and it’s not working. So, this time around, we want homeboy.
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