{"id":26978,"date":"2024-04-12T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=26978"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:15:05","slug":"impeachment-dispute-court-sets-date-for-shaibus-case-against-edo-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/12\/impeachment-dispute-court-sets-date-for-shaibus-case-against-edo-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Dispute: Court Sets Date for Shaibu&#8217;s Case Against Edo Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled April 19th for the hearing of a suit filed by the impeached Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, against the State House of Assembly and other parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The matter, presented before Justice Inyang Ekwo, was fixed for hearing after a legal team, including Alex Ejesieme, SAN, appeared to request a date for the case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although the suit, identified as FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/405\/24, was not initially listed on the cause list, the defense lawyers attended the court session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to adjournment, one of the lawyers informed Justice Ekwo that the matter was slated for Thursday but couldn&#8217;t proceed due to a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging the situation, Justice Ekwo directed the lawyers to coordinate with the court registrar for the next adjourned date, officially setting April 19th for the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu was removed by the Edo State Assembly last week, prompting him to challenge the decision in court, alleging its illegality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled April 19th for the hearing of a suit filed by the impeached Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, against the State House of Assembly and other parties involved. &nbsp; The matter, presented before Justice Inyang Ekwo, was fixed for hearing after a legal team, including Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-26978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26979,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions\/26979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}