BREAKING: Court reinstates Philip Shaibu as Edo deputy gov. | Read Details
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has reinstated the impeached Deputy Governor of Edo State, Mr. Philip Shaibu.
Justice James Omotosho on Wednesday declared his purported impeachment by the Edo State House of Assembly as illegal, unconstitutional, null, and void.
The court ruled that the said impeachment was in gross violation of the provisions of both sections 188 and 35 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
The court also ordered that all his salaries, allowances, and benefits should be paid to him from April 8, when he was illegally impeached, until the expiration of his tenure.
The court issued an order of perpetual injunction restraining Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Edo State House of Assembly from stopping Shaibu from performing the functions of his office.
It also ordered the Inspector General of Police to immediately restore all his security details.
The court maintained that the reason the Edo Assembly gave for impeaching the plaintiff was lame and smacked of an orchestrated political vendetta
