Edo Deputy Governor Comrade Philip Shaibu resumed in his new office on Wednesday located at No. 7, Dennis Osadebey Avenue, Government Reservation Area (GRA), Benin.
Despite Governor Godwin Obaseki’s September 28 acceptance of Shaibu’s apology, he refused to allow his “loyal’ deputy return to the official office inside Government House.
He was also not forthcoming on if Shaibu’s disbanded media team would be restored.
Shaibu moved into his new office with some Catholic priests as a staunch Catholic.
The Reverend Fathers specially anointed and dedicated the one-storey building and the office complex to God as well as pray for Shaibu, his aides and staff.
Shaibu, on September 21, pleaded with Obaseki to forgive him, saying he was sorry while declaring that he was really missing Edo Governor.
He also stated that he had then not moved into his newly-allocated office because the recently-renovated office was not yet policed and lacked a conference room, among other needs.
But Shaibu was silent on if the needful had been done on Wednesday.
Before apologising to Obaseki, the Edo Deputy Governor had withdrawn the anti-impeachment suit at the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, based on intervention of eminent personalities within and outside Edo state.
Obaseki, while accepting the public apology made by Shaibu, stressed that: “to err is human, to forgive is divine.”
