Embattled former Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has filed a petition to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, over what he termed his illegal impeachment by the State House of Assembly.
In the petition sent to the office of the CJN on Tuesday, Shaibu is also seeking a form to file a formal petition against the Edo State Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa, over his impeachment which he emphatically calls an illegality and has vowed to challenge it till the end.
Shaibu was on Monday, impeached by the State Assembly after months of stand off between him and Governor Godwin Obasek, with the lawmakers adopting the report of a seven-man panel set up by Okungbowa to probe him over allegations of leaking the government’s secrets and perjury.
