BREAKING: Edo Lawmakers Serve Philip Shaibu Impeachment Notice

Edo Lawmakers have served Philip Shaibu impeachment notice.

 

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Distinguished Members of Edo Assembly have served Deputy Governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu, an impeachment notice.

This Nigeria news platform understands that 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.

 

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NewsOnline Nigeria reports that Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki and Shaibu, both chieftains of the governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, are at loggerheads over the authentic governorship candidate of PDP in Edo.

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.

 

Details shortly…