Deputy governor of Edo State, Philip Shuaibu, has expressed confidence that he will clinch the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the governorship election in the state.

Shuaibu said, “he will secure the PDP ticket at the primaries for the governorship election because I am the candidate to beat.”

The deputy governor further expressed confidence that his principal, Godwin Obaseki, will support him to emerge as Governor of Edo state.

Shuaibu said that the governor had, during a stakeholders meeting, promised to support any candidate that won the party’s ticket.

“I can bet you that Mr Obaseki, the governor of Edo state my boss and my senior brother will support me, because he has said it at the secretariat when we had our stakeholders meeting that whoever wins he will support and whoever that will win is nobody else than Philip Shuaibu,” he said.