The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has reinstated the impeached Deputy Governor of Edo State, PHILIP SHAIBU back to office. 

The court, in the judgment that was delivered by Justice JAMES OMOTOSHO, declared his purported impeachment by the Edo State House of Assembly as illegal, unconstitutional, null, and void.

It held that the impeachment was in gross violation of the provisions of both sections 188 and 35 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

Aside from restoring him to office as the Deputy Governor, the court held that all his salaries, allowances, and benefits should be paid to him from April 8, when he was illegally impeached, until the expiration of his tenure.