{"id":83866,"date":"2021-07-19T23:33:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T22:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83866"},"modified":"2021-07-19T23:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T22:33:54","slug":"court-halts-impeachment-of-zamfara-deputy-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-halts-impeachment-of-zamfara-deputy-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Court halts impeachment of Zamfara deputy governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1705748525131113986\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday restrained the Zamfara State House of Assembly, the Chief Judge, and others from effecting the impeachment of the state\u2019s Deputy Governor, Mahdi Gusau.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe judge gave the order while ruling in an ex-parte motion brought by the Peoples Democratic Party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Zamfara politics was plunged into the national limelight recently after Governor Bello Matawalle defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP has dragged the Governor to court over the transfer of its mandate to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>However, Deputy Governor Gusau decided not to join his boss in defecting to the APC.<\/p>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s ruling, Justice Egwuatu also stopped the Zamfara State House of Assembly from impeaching its other members who are still in the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>The Zamfara State House of Assembly had, earlier this month, asked Deputy Governor Gusau to appear before its members on July 27 over a political rally he (Gusau) organised in the state.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday restrained the Zamfara State House of Assembly, the Chief Judge, and others from effecting the impeachment of the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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