{"id":115265,"date":"2024-04-08T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T10:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/edo-assembly-impeaches-deputy-governor-shaibu"},"modified":"2024-04-08T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:27:12","slug":"edo-assembly-impeaches-deputy-governor-shaibu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/edo-assembly-impeaches-deputy-governor-shaibu","title":{"rendered":"Edo Assembly impeaches deputy governor, Shaibu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Edo State House of Assembly has impeached the deputy governor of the State, Philip Shaibu.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment was sequel to the report submitted by Justice S.A. Omonua-led seven-man panel which investigated the petition against the deputy governor.<\/p>\n<p>The panel in its reports said the allegation of perjury was not proved beyond reasonable doubt by the complainant against the deputy governor, while that of disclosure of government official documents was proved beyond reasonable doubt against the deputy governor.<\/p>\n<p>At the plenary, 20 members attended,18 members voted in favour of the panel\u2019s reports, while one voted against.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker of the House, Blessing Agbrbaku directed that a clean copy of the impeachment decision by the House be sent to the Governor of the State, Godwin Obaseki for assent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Edo State House of Assembly has impeached the deputy governor of the State, Philip Shaibu. The impeachment was sequel to the report submitted by Justice S.A. Omonua-led seven-man panel which investigated the petition against the deputy governor. The panel in its reports said the allegation of perjury was not proved beyond reasonable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":115263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,13186,254,1530],"class_list":["post-115265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-edo-assembly","tag-nigeria","tag-shaibu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edo Assembly impeaches deputy governor, Shaibu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Edo State House of Assembly has impeached the deputy governor of the State, Philip Shaibu. 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