The Speaker claimed that he brought the subject up with Obaseki and called the accusation “a rumour from the pit of hell.”
The Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu’s alleged impeachment has been denied by the Edo State House of Assembly.
In a meeting with Governor Godwin Obaseki on Friday at the Government House, Speaker Blessing Agbebaku revealed this and insisted that the governor had never brought up the matter with the house.
Agbebaku continued by saying that the legislature had never before thought about dismissing the deputy governor.
“Today, I want the Edo people to know that nothing of the sort occurred. As the assembly’s presiding officer, I have control over the gavel. According to Agbebaku, the gavel is like the AK-47 of the house.
There was never a moment when the governor contacted me repeatedly to demand that the deputy governor be impeached.
Agbebaku said that he had brought the topic to Obaseki and called the accusation “a rumour from the pit of hell.”
“The governor questioned me, ‘What is the impeachment for?’ when I reached him. Why does the deputy governor need to be removed from office? Nothing like that exists, he declared.
I called the deputy governor on my own to inform him that these were rumours. Dissociate yourself from this type of rumour, please. Governor doesn’t have such a plan.
The governor, on the other hand, claimed that there are more important challenges facing the state right now and that the impeachment crisis is the least of his worries right now.
