A federal high court in Abuja has fixed April 19 to hear a suit filed by Philip Shaibu, former deputy governor of Edo, against the state house of assembly and others.
Inyang Ekwo, the presiding judge, fixed the date on Friday
after listening to the lawyers involved.
The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/405/24, was scheduled for
Thursday but could not go on because of the public holiday.
Shaibu was impeached on Monday by the Edo state house of
assembly.
The impeachment followed the adoption of the report of a
seven-man investigative panel.
The panel was set up by Daniel Okungbowa, chief judge of Edo
state, and was headed by S. A. Omonuwa, a retired justice.
The suit filed on March 27 was to stop the process of
Shaibu’s removal from office.
The inspector-general of police (IGP) and the Department of
State Services (SS) are the 1st and 2nd respondents in the suit.
Others in the suit include Theresa Akpoghome, President
Aigbokhian, Oghogho Ayodele Oviasu, Omonua, Okungbowa and the Edo state house
of assembly.
In the suit filed by O.A. Gbadamosi, lawyer to Shaibu, the
former deputy governor wants the court to declare that the Edo assembly failed
to give him a fair hearing in the impeachment proceedings in gross violation of
his fundamental right.
He sought a declaration that the failure of the 8th
respondent (assembly) to serve the purported impeachment notice on him
personally and on each member of the house of assembly, in line with section
188(2) of the 1999 Constitution is a violation of his right to fair hearing.
Shaibu also said the allegations contained in a purported
impeachment are tainted by bias.
He sought an order directing the respondents not to take any
further steps in violating his fundamental right to a fair hearing, guaranteed
by section 36 of the 1999 Constitution.
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