The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has reinstated the impeached Deputy Governor of Edo State, Mr. Philip Shuaibu back to office.
The court, in the judgement 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 section 188 and 35 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
Aside from restoring him back 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 illegally impeached, till 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 him 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.
