Justice
Ademola Adeniyi of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, struck
out the suit that sought to remove the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his
Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu from office on the premise that the Senate Standing
Orders 2015, that produced them, was forged.
Justice
Adeniyi terminated further hearing on the matter after the plaintiffs who are
five Senators Abu Ibrahim, Kabir Marafa, Ajayi Boroffice, Olugbenga Ashafa and
Suleiman Hunkuni, applied to withdraw the suit.
At
the resumed sitting on the case yesterday, the plaintiffs, through their lawyer
Chief Mamman Osuman (SAN), said their decision to discontinue further hearing
on the matter was in view of the fact that the essence of the suit had been
overtaken by events.
Senate
President Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy President of the Senate
They
noted that the Senate leadership under Saraki and Ekweremadu, despite the
pendency of the suit, had carried out several legislative actions, among which
they said included the constitution of different committees for the 8th Senate.
Following
their application, Justice Adeniyi, in a short ruling yesterday, struck out the
suit.
Meanwhile,
none of the defendants sent a legal representation before the court yesterday.
Specifically,
the plaintiffs had prayed the court to stop both Saraki and Ekweremadu from
further exercising the powers of the Senate President and Deputy Senate
President, respectively.
In
their suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/651/2015, the plaintiffs, all members of All
Progressives Congress, APC, also urged the court to stop the two defendants
from relying on the provisions of the alleged forged Senate Standing Orders
2015, to conduct the affairs of the Senate.
Equally
joined as defendants in the suit were the Clerk of the National Assembly, the
Senate itself and the National Assembly.
The
plaintiffs were all members of the ‘Unity Forum’ in the Senate that supported
Ahmed Lawan to emerge as the Senate President in the election that was won by
Saraki on June 9.
Justice
Gabriel Kolawole, who earlier presided over the matter as a vacation judge, had
in a ruling he delivered on July 28, declined to issue an interim order of
injunction against Saraki and Ekweremadu.
Source: Vanguard
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