Edo State Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu has been denied access to his office at the Government House in Benin, the state capital.
On Monday morning’s arrival at the state house, the Deputy Governor met the gate locked with a chain and padlock.
“Up till now, I don’t have any official communication that I should relocate. The only people that have official communication are my civil servants. The civil servants have official communication but I don’t. As I am speaking to you now, I am standing by the gate,” he said speaking to a yet-to-be-identified person on the phone.
Philip Shaibu and his aides were said to have waited for about an hour before leaving.
Meanwhile, The PUNCH reports a source saying that the gate leading to the deputy governor’s office was locked with no one around to open the door for him.
The source said, “The Deputy Governor was here this (Monday) morning and the gate leading to his office was locked and there was no one to open it for him. I think his office has also been shut because of the new office he was told to move to outside the government house.
“He waited for almost 30 minutes before he left. I don’t know if he had gone to his new office but he was not allowed to move into the one in the government house.”
An aide to Obaseki, name withheld, said the deputy governor only came to the government house to make trouble.
The aide said, “He only came to make trouble. There is nothing like him being locked out of his office. His office was relocated over two weeks ago and he (Shaibu) posted a story about that. People should ask him why he came to the Government House today (Monday) to make trouble. He was forcing himself into an office that was not his own. He came here to make trouble. His office is elsewhere, if he had gone there and he was locked out then it would be an issue. He came to the government house purposely to come and cause trouble”
