 The adult state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has alleged that Philip Shaibu, his deputy, hatched a plan to kick him out of office. Addressing stakeholders in a video, Obaseki said Shaibu has become so desperate to succeed him ahead of the adult governorship election in 2024. Obaseki said he has repeatedly told Shaibu to keep his governorship ambition in check because there is still a lot of work to be done ahead of next year's transition. What struck me, and I have never said this to anybody, is that after I proclaimed the House of Assembly, we are now going to elect officers to the House of Assembly. He was in Abu Dhabi. He came back that day. My deputy called the leader, the leader in APC, telling that leader that during the elections, the next day of the leadership, the particular speaker of the House of Assembly, that he has five members who are loyal to him and that he would like the several members of APC to work with five members of PDP to produce the speaker. At that point, I called the PDP members to my house just to familiarize with them. And as you know, he tried to barge in and said, well, you cannot just come to my house. It's my private house. I haven't got my house. You have to have the courtesy. But now it is my prerogative whether I want you to come in or not. After I heard what he had done, I said you can't come into our meeting. We met, agreed. The next day, we went to the House of Assembly, he went there and we did what we did. As far as I'm concerned, that was not working in our common interests. Why would the deputy governor seek to have another candidate, another speakership candidate outside of what the governor wants? Are we working together? No. That is where I now knew that we had a problem. To see the deputy governor had become so desperate to take over that he would do anything including on that taking, carrying out a coup against his governor. How can you say you are loyal and you don't do that sort of a thing? Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.