The deputy governor of Edo state, Philip Shaibu, has been impeached by the state house of assembly.
The impeachment followed the adoption of the report of a seven-man investigative panel set up by the Edo state chief judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa.
Shaibu was accused of “misconduct, perjury and disclosure of government secrets”.
The panel headed by S. A. Omonuwa, a retired justice of the Supreme Court commenced
sitting following a resolution by the state house of assembly on initiating impeachment processes against Shaibu.
At the panel’s inaugural sitting on April 3, the house of assembly was represented by Joe Ohiafi, deputy clerk, legal.
Shaibu was represented by Prof. Oladoyin Awoyale, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN).
In July, Shaibu approached a federal high court in Abuja with a suit to prevent the impeachment plot against him.
He asked the court to restrain Obaseki, the speaker of the state assembly, and the chief judge, from “initiating impeachment proceedings or sanctioning any impeachment” against him.
Shaibu had long fallen out with Godwin Obaseki, governor of the state.
Thereafter, the court restrained Obaseki, the speaker, and other defendants in the suit from initiating impeachment proceedings against Shaibu.
In September, Shaibu withdrew the suit he filed against Obaseki, paving the way for the proceedings which eventually sacked him from office.
Credit: THECABLE
