The impeachment process against Shaibu in Edo State has begun following the adoption of a report by an investigative panel. Shaibu had previously sought legal action to prevent the impeachment plot.
The panel was set up by Daniel Okungbowa, chief judge of Edo, and was headed by S. A. Omonuwa, a retired justice.The commencement of the panel’s sitting followed the 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 Oladoyin Awoyale, a professor and senior advocate of Nigeria .
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. Thereafter, the court restrained Obaseki, the speaker, and other defendants in the suit from initiating impeachment proceedings against Shaibu.he filed against Obaseki, paving the way for the proceedings which eventually sacked him from office.
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