Within two decades and four years of Nigeria’s return to democracy, there has been 17 deputy governors who have been impeached since 1999.
With Phillip Shaibu of Edo State being the latest victim, Femi Pedro of Lagos State tops the list as the first as he was removed from his office while serving alongside the current president of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Deputy Governors over the years however have been impeached for political reasons that somehow tagged as gross misconduct and only eight (8) of them have successfully obtained court orders setting aside their impeachments.
Below are the names of the impeached deputy governors as well as the states they were impeached from:
- Femi Pedro (Lagos)
- Iyiola Omisore (Osun)
- Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele (Lagos)
- Chris Ekpenyong (Akwa Ibom)
- Abiodun Aluko (Ekiti)
- Biodun Olujinmi (Ekiti)
- Late Garba Gadi (Bauchi)
- Peremobowei Elebi (Bayelsa)
- Sani Abubakar Danladi (Taraba)
- Jude Agbaso (Imo)
- Sunday Onyebuchi (Enugu)
- Ali Olanusi (Ondo)
- Eze Madumere (Imo)
- Simon Achuba (Kogi)
- Rauf Olaniyan (Oyo)
- Mahdi Aliyu Gusau (Zamfara)
- Philip Shaibu (Edo)
As mentioned earlier about getting court orders to be reinstated, none of them were allowed back to their offices for one reason or another.
Below are the list of deputy governors who successfully obtained court orders setting aside their impeachments:
- Garba Gadi (Bauchi);
- Peremobowei Elebi (Bayelsa);
- Sani Abubakar Danladi (Taraba);
- Sunday Onyebuchi (Enugu);
- Ali Olanusi (Ondo),
- Jude Agbaso (Imo);
- Eze Madumere (Imo);
- Simon Achuba (Kogi) and
- Mahdi Aliyu Gusau (Zamfara)
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