Court adjourns hearing of suit seeking Akeredolu’s sack to Feb 6

JUSTICE Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday adjourned till February 6, 2019, to hear all pending motions in the suit seeking the sack of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State.

When the matter came up yesterday, plaintiff counsel, Professor Joash Amupitan (SAN) informed the court that, at the last hearing of the matter on January 31, the court directed defendants in the matter to file their objection to the documents frontloaded by the plaintiff.

He said the plaintiff made all the documents available to the defendants and that the defendants served their motion on notice, stating their objections on the plaintiff yesterday in court.

To that end, he said the plaintiff needs time to reply on points of law and asked for an adjournment to reply to the objections.

“We ask that the matter is taken together with the motions on February 6,” Prof. Amupitan told the court.

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With the agreement of parties in the matter, the court adjourned till tomorrow, February 6 to hear all pending motions.

A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Olusegun Abraham, who was the 1st runner-up in the APC governorship primary in Ondo State in 2016, is by the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/788/2016, challenging Akeredolu’s emergence as the winner of the primary and the party’s candidate for the last governorship election in the state.

Abraham alleged that the primary was manipulated to favour Akeredolu and wants the court to nullify Akeredolu’s victory and pronounce him (Abraham) the winner of the primary and the party’s candidate for the election.

When Amupitan moved to tender the documents he said had been agreed on, at the last hearing of the matter, the judge noted that the documents were not accompanied with a well-drawn out the schedule.

Upon agreement by lawyers to parties in the matter, the judge then adjourned for the admission of documentary evidence agreed to by parties.

Justice Dimgba then ordered parties to prepare a schedule of documents to be tendered to allow for easy reference.