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Edo State deputy governor, Philip Shaibu has been impeached, sources tell Dockaysworld.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n He was removed by the State House of Assembly during plenary on Monday.<\/p>\n The impeachment followed an investigation led by Justice S.A. Omonua (retired) and a seven-man panel into the impeachment petition against the former Deputy Governor.<\/p>\n According to the panel\u2019s report, the accusation of perjury against Shaibu was not sufficiently substantiated by the complainant.<\/p>\n However, the allegation of disclosing government official documents was found to be substantiated.<\/p>\n During the plenary session, 18 out of the 20 present members voted in support of the panel\u2019s report, while one member dissented.<\/p>\n The impeachment move is believed to be the latest development in the\u00a0rift between<\/a>\u00a0Shaibu and his principal, Governor\u00a0Godwin Obaseki<\/strong>.<\/b><\/p>\n There had been an uneasy calm between the deputy governor and his principal since last year when\u00a0Shaibu declared<\/a>\u00a0his interest to join this year\u2019s Edo governorship race.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Edo State deputy governor, Philip Shaibu has been impeached, sources tell Dockaysworld. He was removed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-view-point"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",536,497,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu-300x278.png",300,278,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",536,497,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",536,497,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",536,497,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",536,497,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",536,497,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",410,380,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",216,200,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shaibu.png",50,46,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"News Digest<\/a>","tag_info":"News Digest","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43033,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43031\/revisions\/43033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}