Frontline human rights activist, Dr Patrick Osagie Eholor has said that he stands by his words that the Edo state deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu owns a petrol filling station that sold above the regulator pump price.
Eholor in a statement, made available to Jungle-Journalist.Com, also argued that Shaibu has lately, fallen out with the governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki.
Eholor was reacting to a rejoinder to his earlier claims made by someone who described himself as a political evangelist.
In his words, the human rights defender wrote in the statement:
“Dear Political Evangelist.
I know you were either paid to do this or you just one of those clout chasers looking for cheap favour but unfortunately you just picked on the wrong person.
“To start with, how do you debunk claims without verifiable evidence? Who do you think you are deceiving? Obviously some of your few followers and not Edo people as they are wiser.
“Edo people are not ignorant when it comes to governance and assets, so kindly go back to your drawing board and counter all my claims with evidence until then, myself (Ultimate Equal) and yourself are no match.
“Even in the villages in Edo state, most people are already aware of the fact that the Edo State deputy Governor owns a fuelling station, this claim is not what you can wake up one morning to erase from the minds of the people.
“Does he have a fuel station in Benin? Yes.
“Does that fuel station sell at the approved pump price? No.
“Now to the issue of the Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu and the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki.
“Edo people are also aware that the cordial relationship both of them do have was thrown into the thin air when Philip Shaibu gave Edo state Governor $300,000 for governorship ticket. Unfortunately, Governor Godwin Obaseki denied him of the position and now again the issue between them is as a result of the upcoming Local Government election of which both of them are not supporting the same candidate.
“If we are to be sincere in the above subject matter, it will be more factual to say that you Robinson Akhenoba is the one who is an idle and evil minded old man chasing clout in order to get cheap favour from the Deputy Governor.
“I have no issues with Comrade Philip Shaibu, he is my friend and my brother and as a matter of fact, we both flew to Abuja some days and we had a pleasurable discussion onboard.
“The truth hurts a lot but regardless we must continue to speak truth into power.
“Leaders lead by example. He (Shaibu) should sell his fuel by the regulator price”, he stated