{"id":22817,"date":"2024-03-12T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2024-03-12T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:54:58","slug":"edo-state-assembly-publishes-impeachment-notice-against-deputy-governor-in-national-dailies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/12\/edo-state-assembly-publishes-impeachment-notice-against-deputy-governor-in-national-dailies\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo State Assembly Publishes Impeachment Notice Against Deputy Governor in National Dailies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edo State House of Assembly has decided to publish the impeachment notice served to the state Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu, in national dailies. The move comes in response to Shaibu&#8217;s alleged refusal to acknowledge the notice, which accused him of perjury and leaking government secrets. The impeachment proceedings initiated last week are seen as part of an ongoing rift between Shaibu and Governor Godwin Obaseki, exacerbated since Shaibu declared interest in the governorship race last year. The Speaker of the Edo State House Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, announced the decision to publish the notice after claiming that Shaibu had rejected the initial service.<\/p>\n<p>The directive to publish the impeachment notice in national newspapers is a substitute method, as the deputy governor reportedly refused to accept the notice served by the House. This development adds a layer of formality to the impeachment proceedings and marks a significant escalation in the political tension within the Edo State government. The decision to publish the notice aims to ensure that the information reaches the deputy governor and the public through widespread circulation in prominent media outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edo State House of Assembly has decided to publish the impeachment notice served to the state Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu, in national dailies. The move comes in response to Shaibu&#8217;s alleged refusal to acknowledge the notice, which accused him of perjury and leaking government secrets. The impeachment proceedings initiated last week are seen as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":22818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22860,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions\/22860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}