According to Sahara reporters,
In a move some legal experts have described as
an abuse of court process, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), through one Isiaq
Abiodun Akinlade in the House of
Representatives, has approached an Abuja
Division of the Federal High Court to sack
Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal from his
position and membership of the House of
Representatives
The case, which is expected to come up today
before Justice Evoh Chukwu, fellow Ebonyi
indigene and kinsman of the Secretary of the
Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius
Anyim, is seeking an ex-parte order to remove
Tambuwal from his seat as well as to ask the
Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, to take over
as acting Speaker of the House of
representatives.
The decision to award the case to Justice
Chukwu has raised eyebrows in legal quarters
especially considering the fact that he is well
known pro-government judge known for
awarding bogus legal victories to the PDP in the
past.
Some lawyers in the know of the issue said it
was curious that Chukwu will even accept to
handle the matter considering the fact that
similar issues are now before a different judge in
the same Abuja Division of the court.
Mr. Tambuwal has already filed a case in court
seeking protection against moves by the PDP to
declare his seat vacant. Already, Justice Ahmed
Ramat Muhammed has ordered that status quo
be maintained until the determination of the
lawsuit filed by Tambuwal. Having been named
defendants in this case, the party has now
instigated one of its members in the House of
Representatives to file another case seeking
reliefs Tambuwal sought to stop his removal.
A lawyer knowledgeable about Justice Chukwu's
antecedents today said: "The issue of Justice
Chukwu giving favourable judgements to PDP is
now a source of concern to many.
You are
aware that he gave judgement against Baraje
led-New PDP by saying there was no faction in
the party. This ruling was contradicted by two
respected judges in Sokoto and Ilorin divisions of
the Federal High Court who held that by the
facts before them, there are indeed factions in
PDP.
"By his stand on the Baraje issue, his position
on the availability of faction in PDP is already
known. Speaker Tambuwal defected to APC
because he was convinced there was a faction in
Sokoto PDP as per the ruling of the Sokoto
division of the Federal High Court. Do you think
Justice Chukwu is the right person to hear this
application?
Curiously, Akinlade also recently defected from
the APC to the PDP in order to actualize his
ambition of becoming governor of Ogun State on
the platform of the PDP.
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