Edo: Shuaibu’s Burden of Bearing His Cross

On Thursday, as we celebrated the “Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross”, somehow my mind was transfixed on Philip Shuaibu, Edo State Deputy Governor and his travails. Who will save him from a self inflicted conundrum? For weeks, we’ve watched the unfolding ‘roforofo’ fight and muzzle flexing between Shuaibu and his erstwhile close ally and boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki that has not only seen governance nosedived to mere fiddlesticks in our beloved state but took shine away from the 60 years anniversary of our historic referendum that saw the birth of the Midwest (now Edo & Delta states) in 1963