Former Edo South senatorial district candidate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Chief Executive Officer, DVD Oil, Valentine Asuen, has cried out for paying the sum of N6 million to the coffer of the state government for alleged wrong parking.
Narrating his ordeals, he alleged that the state deputy governor, Philip Shaibu accused him of parking on the Right Of Way in one of his filling stations in Benin City, which himself (Asuen) denied.
Asuen, popularly known as DVD, said that the deputy governor made him to cough out the sum of N6 million as payment for the offense he didn’t commit despite pleading with him to temper justice with mercy even when he (Asuen) knew that he was not parking his trucks on the Right Of Way as claimed by the deputy governor but all his pleadings fell on a deaf ear.
The former senatorial candidate alleged that, what the deputy governor did was political witch-hunting against his person.
He further accused the deputy governor of using government official power to oppress him.
He added that the deputy governor is working against the interest of the Benin people by trying to frustrate them out of business, stressing that the state governor, Godwin Obaseki will not go to Edo North where the deputy governor hails from to shutdown their business premises.
He said governor Obaseki is not the problem of Edo people rather than Philip Shaibu, pointing out that Obaseki is a good man who joined the then governor of the state and now senator representing Edo North senatorial district, Adams Oshiomhole to develop the state alleging that Shaibu later tore them apart with his lies.
He lauded Obaseki’s developmental strides and expressed optimism that one day Oshiomhole and Obaseki will put their differences behind them and come together again for the interest of the state, now that they have acknowledged their common enemy.
He warned Shaibu to stop claiming to be son of the palace because of his actions.
He said that the now embattled deputy governor fails to know that power is transient adding that the deputy governor is currently reaping what he has planted.
He said that the deputy governor should be rest assured that he (Asuen) is going to collect the money from him with accumulated interest when the time comes.
“That N6 million you made me to sign that I will not take you to court, the interest and the entitlement that it has accrued, he is going to pay me all”, Asuen said.