Shaibu and Awoyale’s refusal to appear before members of the panel was hinged on its disobedience of the March 28, 2024 interlocutory order of the Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo.
No one can save Deputy Governor now, says Obono-Obla Shaibu and Awoyale’s refusal to appear before members of the panel was hinged on its disobedience of the March 28, 2024 interlocutory order of the Federal High Court , Abuja, presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo.
Edo State Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, who constituted the panel on March 25 to probe the allegations levelled against Shaibu, is billed to soon receive the report from the seven members for the state’s lawmakers to proceed with Shaibu’s removal or not. The FHC Abuja suit before Justice Ekwo has as defendants the Inspector-General of Police ; the Department of Security Services ; Omonua, representing himself and the members of the panel; Edo Chief Judge and the state’s House of Assembly.
At Thursday’s sitting, the Principal Legal Officer of Edo House of Assembly, N.U. Ibrahim, who initiated the impeachment proceedings, announced his appearance with two other lawyers. Okungbowa reconstituted another panel in line with Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria .
He said: “I feel sorry for the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shuiabu, because nothing is going to save him from impeachment. Even though Philip Shuiabu has challenged the impeachment proceedings against him in the Federal High Court, I don’t see the Court saving him. “I feel Sorry for the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Hon. Philip Shuiabu and I think the position of Deputy Governor should be abolished by the Constitution. Rather, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly should succeed any state governor in the event of death or resignation or removal from office of the Governor.
“For the past 24 years of the present democratic and constitutional dispensation, we have starkly experienced and seen deputy governors suffer under the threat of impeachment from the hands of wicked state governors; the states’ Houses of Assembly have not been able to stop the sufferings of deputy governors.
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