Edo Assembly serves Deputy Governor Shaibu impeachment notice.

Members of Edo Assembly have served Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, an impeachment notice.

Shaibu, a former member of the House of Representatives, ex-Majority Leader of Edo Assembly and former President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), was given seven days to respond to allegations levelled against him.

The Majority leader, Charity Aiguobarueghian, who announced the impeachment notice during plenary, said a petition dated March 5, was signed by 21 out of the 24 members against the deputy governor.

Aiguobarueghian said, “The petition against the deputy governor came in on March 5 and was signed by 21 out of the 24 members. The number of members who signed the petition was more than the two-third requirement stipulated in the constitution.”

He also said that the petition was based on two grounds perjury and revealing of government secrets.

The speaker of the House, Blessing Agbebaku who acknowledged receipt of the petition, directed the Clerk of the House, Yahaya Omogbai, to serve Shaibu the impeachment notice.

The impeachment notice is the latest in the rift between the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his Deputy, who have been at loggerheads since mid-last year when Shaibu announced his intention to run for the office of the governor of the state.

Obaseki is fully backing a Lagos-based lawyer, Asue Ighodalo, who emerged as the party’s standard bearer of the governorship indirect primary election at Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin.

Shaibu emerged factional candidate at a parallel primary at his official residence on Commercial Avenue in Benin.