By Balarabe Oshiafi
Spontaneous celebration in Uzairue Kingdom, Edo State have followed Wednesday’s restoration of Philip Shaibu as Deputy Governor of Edo State by a federal high Court in Abuja.
Shaibu hails from Jattu-Uzairue in Etsako-West local government area (LGA) of Edo State.
ExpressDay Newspaper’s investigations reveal that several people and/or places also committed themselves to the spontaneity of the celebrations as though they were snatching it from the homestead of the restored Deputy Governor.
“The frenzy is understandable, given the circumstances of the impeachment and all that has happened since then”, Noble Okhidemeh, an Auchi-based lawyer and public affairs analyst told this medium while reacting to the development.
The court, in the judgment that was delivered by Justice James Omotosho, declared his purported impeachment by the Edo State House of Assembly as illegal, unconstitutional, null, and void.
It held that the said impeachment was in gross violation of the provisions of both sections 188 and 35 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
Aside from restoring him to office as the Deputy Governor, the court held that all his salaries, allowances, and benefits should be paid to him from April 8, when he was 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 ochestrated political vendetta.
The Edo State House of Assembly impeached Shaibu on April 8, 2024.
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