Embattled Deputy Governor of Edo State, Phillip Shuaibu, has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to stop the commencement of an impeachment process against him.
This was after he accused his boss, Governor Godwin Obaseki of perfecting a plot to impeach him and requested special court protection from Obaseki’s impeachment plot so that he can function as Deputy Governor of the State.
In the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1027/2023, the Inspector General of Police; State Security Service; the Governor of Edo State; the Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, and the Chief Judge of Edo State are the first, second, third, fourth and fifth defendants respectively.
Shuaibu is seeking an interlocutory injunction restraining the 3rd, 4th and 5th Defendants/Respondents or their agents from commencing an impeachment process against him.
In an affidavit of urgency sighted by Top Society, he alleged: ‘’That I know that this case is all about the action of the 3rd Defendant in preventing me from carrying out the functions of my office Deputy Governor of Edo and using the 1st and 2nd Defendants to harass, intimidate and embarrass me with the 4th and 5th Defendants in tandem with the desire of the 3rd Defendant to impeach me.
‘’The 3rd Defendant has hatched plans to impeach me and the court needs to urgently intervene by restraining him and all the other Defendants acting in concert with him.’’
He alleged the Governor was using security operatives as well as Edo Speaker and Chief Judge to perfect the plots to have him impeached.
The feud between Obaseki and Shaibu started after the Deputy Governor was sighted in a viral video with Senator Adams Oshiomole during the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly, Abuja.
The Governor, in turn, invited all the members of the Edo Assembly to his mansion to discuss the development in Benin without his Deputy.
The Deputy Governor, who reportedly got wind of the meeting, was said to have driven hurriedly to the mansion but was turned down at the entrance of the mansion, where he was reportedly told by DSS operatives that he was not on the list of invitees.
Shuaibu, whose ego is bruised, is now fighting to save his job and career by taking legal action.
