Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki says he has accepted the public apology of his Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, saying ‘to err is human, to forgive is divine.’
Obaseki, in a statement on Thursday said he had noted the public apology made by Shaibu, saying that the apology followed an aberrant behaviour that contradicted what the people of Edo State stood for.
According to Obaseki, “to name a few, the Deputy Governor needlessly filed unfounded petitions in the Nigerian courts restraining me, the State House of Assembly and Security agencies from a non-existent impeachment process, followed by repeated breaches of protocol; unwarranted and unprovoked attacks in the media on my person and the State Government.
“The media frenzy as a result of the above and more provided an impression of crises that have been precarious and distasteful to Edo people in the State and across the world.”
The governor said, although, these unwarranted provocations caused him severe personal discomfort, but that as a person of faith, he was under obligation to accept this apology because as they say, “to err is human, to forgive is divine.”
“In good faith, I trust that the public apology as expressed by the Deputy Governor is genuine and followed by contrite steps to improve his conflict resolution skills. I also enjoin the Deputy Governor to guide his proxies to act by his piety,” he said.
Obaseki said it was his sincere hope and that of his other colleagues in government and all well-meaning Edo people, that these rhetorics would be put to an end forthwith to enable this administration to finish strong and deliver the dividends of democracy to the greatest number of Edo people over this final 12 months.