A suit seeking the invalidation of Kola Abiola as the People’s Redemption Party (PRP)’s presidential candidate has been transferred to a special task force of judges for speedy determination.This came after the presiding judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja,, proceeded on his annual vacation.Although the suit was on number 15 on Tuesday’s cause list, the matter could not go on due to the absence of Justice Mohammed in court.The registrar, however, informed that the judge, who was a vacation judge during this year’s annual vacation,…
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Wike’s fight against Atiku, Ayu, Self-Serving – Ex-Legislator
Alphonsus Nweze Former member of Anambra State House of Assembly and a legal practitioner, Ezenwa Chigbo Emwezor, has flayed Governor Nyesom Wike. Speaking in an exclusive interview to Primepointers, an Online Newspaper, Emwezor said Wike contrary to perception of many southerners is not doing what he is doing because of the interest of anybody, either for the South or for Rivers State but for what he is going to get from the system. The former chairman of Judicial Committee in the Anambra State House of Assembly expressed surprise that Wike…
Read MorePresidential candidate controversy: PDP, Atiku, Tambuwal challenge Wike’s suit
The PDP, Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State have challenged a suit filed by Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers over the recently-concluded presidential primaries.The trio, in a notice of preliminary objection marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/782/22 dated and filed on Aug. 5 before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court, Abuja, sought an order striking out or dismissing the suit for want of jurisdiction.Prince Michael Ekamon and Governor Wike are 1st and 2nd plaintiffs respectively in a suit dated June 2 and filed on June 3.While the…
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