The Edo State House of Assembly has impeached the State’s Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu.
He was impeached during the house’s plenary session held today in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Shaibu’s impeachment followed the adoption of the report of a seven-man committee set up by the chief judge of Edo State Justice Daniel Okungbowa to investigate allegations of misconduct, perjury and disclosure of the state government’s secrets.
The State House of Assembly started the impeachment proceedings against Shaibu last week. During its plenary, the Speaker of the House Blessing Agbebaku told the lawmakers that the seven-day ultimatum granted Shaibu to respond to the impeachment notice served on him had expired.
The speaker reminded the lawmakers that the impeachment notice was served on Shaibu on March 6, 2024. But due to what he described as the deputy governor’s alleged evasion of service, the Edo House of Assembly ordered a substituted service which was published in the Nigerian Observer and the Vanguard Newspapers on March 12, 2024. He said March 19, 2024, made it seven days.
Shaibu’s impeachment culminates the political impasse between the deputy governor and his principal Godwin Obaseki.
Recall that Philip Shaibu Moved Out Of the Government House.
Twenty-one of the 24 lawmakers signed a petition to that effect.
