Philip Shaibu (born 1 December 1969) is a Nigerian accountant and politician who served as the deputy governor of Edo State from 2016 until his impeachment in 2024.
[11] Shaibu first ventured into politics in 2003 when he contested elections into the Edo State House of Assembly under the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) but lost.
[12][13] Shaibu once again in 2007 contested and won the election to represent the Etsako West Constituency under the platform of the Action Congress (AC) at the Edo State House of Assembly.
[14] In 2015, after spending eight years at the Edo state House of Assembly, he contested and won the Etsako Federal constituency House of Representatives seat and beat his closest rival Abbas Braimah of the Peoples Democratic party with a poll of 42,079 votes against Braimah's 29,941 votes to clinch the representative seat.
[19] In a joint ticket with Governor Godwin Obaseki, Shaibu contested and won the 2020 Edo State gubernatorial election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).