The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Comrade Philip Shaibu, has warned the people who he alleges are going about destroying or dismantling his campaign billboards.
He is saying that the development is unhelpful because it is the Edo people who should decide who becomes the next governor of the state.
Shaibu, who was visibly angry when he visited the scene of his billboard on Lagos Street, around Ring Road, addressed a mammoth crowd who gathered to hear him.
He spoke in Hausa and Yoruba and greeted the people in Esan languages, saying that his campaign billboards were dismantled on two different occasions on the same spot.
According to him, he had secured all the stands for his campaign billboards since June 2023 because “I am a man who plans for whatever I want to do. I paid and secured all of them across the state, signed an MoU with the owners, and fully paid for them.”
“This kind of ugly development is capable of scaring private investors away from the state.”
“This is why we have to be very careful as a government and individual in our actions.”
“We are going to replace the billboard right now. We hope it will not be tampered with again.”
“We have been patient enough; they must not provoke us. Our patience must not be taken for granted. Edo is a peaceful state; we must allow peace to prevail before, during, and after the election,” Shaibu counselled.
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