{"id":4649,"date":"2024-07-17T13:50:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2024-07-17T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:50:42","slug":"edo-politics-court-reinstates-impeached-shaibu-as-edo-deputy-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/edo-politics-court-reinstates-impeached-shaibu-as-edo-deputy-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Politics: Court Reinstates Impeached Shaibu As Edo Deputy Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday nullified the impeachment of Philip Shaibu as the Deputy Governor of Edo State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delivering the judgement, Justice Omotosho ordered the reinstatement of Shaibu because the Edo State House of Assembly did not follow due process in the impeachment process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge also voided the appointment of the new Deputy Governor who replaced Shaibu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court also held that the allegation which the House of Assembly used as a yardstick for Shaibu\u2019s impeachment was not tenable in law and did not constitute gross misconduct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge ordered the Inspector General of Police to provide him with the needed security to enable resume office and function as Deputy Governor until his tenure expires.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: PUNCH Online\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday nullified the impeachment of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}