The crisis rocking Edo state government house between Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy Philip Shaibu has taken another dimension as the Governor has reportedly asked the sports commission chairman, Yusuf Ali to send all files containing information about sports management and administration in the state since 2020 to his office.
Truth Live News gathered from its government house source that the permanent secretary, and an elder sister to the house of Philip Shaibu Sebina Chikere is to be removed from the sports ministry and sent on compulsory leave as probe is to be instituted into her activities since 2020.
Our correspondent in Benin city had reported how the Inlaw of the deputy Governor had turned sports into her personal business in Edo state, raising a group of Cabal that harassed and intimidated sports men and women in Edo State.
Governor Obaseki who has reportedly told his close aides that he had heard enough stories coming from the sport commission and was now ready to clean up the house.
Sebina, it was learnt, took over football administration in the state, changing officers and administrators in the Edo state Football Association at will. She was recently accused of single-handedly selected members of the election committee of the FA, while dismantling the committee instituted by the board of FA as required by the Nigeria Football Federation statute.
Sebina Chikere who was accused of appointing a Secretary for the Football association, a man who hailed from Delta state to oversee football in Edo state.
Appointed as Permanent Secretary under some questionable arrangements by the deputy governor, Sebina Chikere was also accused of plotting to install her stooge as the new chairman of the FA which necessitated to her selecting her gang members as head and members of the electoral committee.
More details to follow…