Edo Impeachment: Shaibu’s Lawyer Walks Out Of Panel Hearing

Prof Oladoyin Awoyale, SAN, lawyer to the deputy governor of Edo State Comrade Philip Shaibu in the ongoing investigation of the impeachment allegations levelled against him walked out of the hearing of the seven-man panel.

GWG.ng reports that Prof Awoyale walked out after failing to persuade the Justice S.A. Omonuwa seven-man panel to suspend its hearing in anticipation of the orders of a Federal High Court.

He had pleaded that the Federal High Court in Abuja had ordered the panel and Shaibu to show cause on why the court should honour or reject an interlocutory injunction requested by the embattled deputy governor. The Federal High Court had ordered the two parties to appear before it on Monday, April 9, 2024.

The panel, however, ruled that for the moment that there was no order of the court not to proceed with the investigative hearing.

According to Justice Oonuwa (rtd), the Abuja Court only asked the two parties to appear to show cause but had not given an order.

Counsel to the House of Assembly Joe Ohiafi, who is also the deputy clerk of the House, however, brought a different perspective with his assertion that no court can stop the affairs of the panel.

Citing Section 188 (10) of the Constitution, he said that no court has the right to prevent the House of Assembly, or the panel so set up, from performing its constitutional responsibilities as he said that the counsel of Shaibu was trying to mislead the panel on its constitutional duties.

Upon the submission and the ruling of the panel, Awoyale told the panel that Shaibu could not sustain his presence before the panel and pleaded to be excused and then walked out of the panel investigating the impeachment allegations.

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