The Edo House of Assembly on Wednesday commenced impeachment proceeding against the state deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu.
The impeachment proceeding was announced by the Majority Leader, Charity Aiguobarueghian, who announced that a petition to that effect, dated March 5, 2024, was signed by 21 out of the 24 members against the deputy governor.
Aiguobarueghian stated that the number of members who signed the petition were more than the two- third requirement stipulated in the constitution.
He also announced that the petition was based on two grounds of perjury and revealing of government secrets
The speaker of the house, Blessing Agbebaku who acknowledged receipt of the petition, directed the clerk of the house, Yahaya Omogbai to serve the impeachment notice on the deputy governor.
Agbebaku also gave the deputy governor seven days to respond to the notice of impeachment.
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Shaibu, it would be recalled, has been in the eyes of the storm with his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki, over the governorship ticket of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
While Shaibu threw his hats into the ring for the PDP ticket, and ally of Obaseki, Asue Ighodalo, eventually emerged the party’s flagbearer in the just concluded gubernatorial primary of the party, with Shaibu declaring himself winner in the exercise, after he assembled some loyalists in his official quarters to hold another primary.
Shaibu, in the heat of the crisis, was also relocated from his former office in the Government House premises to another building outside the Government House.
