Edo deputy gov’s wife petitions police, alleges threat to life
The wife of the Edo State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Maryann Shaibu, has petitioned the Commissioner of Police over an alleged threat to her life by a former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole.
The petition by Idemudia Ilueminosen, the lawyer for Mrs. Philip-Shaibu, titled, ‘Threat to Life,’ stated that Oshiomhole allegedly threatened to deal the deputy governor’s wife on Sunday, September 6, 2020, at Jattu in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, during the APC campaign tour to the community.
According to the petition, Oshiomhole did not only threaten to deal with Mrs. Philip-Shaibu, but he also declared that he has sent some thugs to monitor her movements in Etsako West.
“This is more so that the lives of our client and her family (by this threat) are at stake and the situation may degenerate into a full-blown crisis if nothing urgent is done,” the petition read.
Meanwhile, Oshiomhole’s media aide, Mr. Victor Oshioke, said the former governor was focused on marketing the governorship candidate of the APC to the people and “cannot, under any circumstances, be distracted by the buzzing of baby mosquitoes Mrs. Shaibu.”
“This petition is nothing but a futile attempt to divert the attention of Nigerians from the trending video of Maryann Shaibu threatening to flog women old enough to be her mother if they dare exercise their fundamental human rights to attend any event other than the one she organizes,” he said.
