A suit filed by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, before a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking an order stopping any plan to remove him from office, was stalled on Tuesday.
The matter had also failed to make any progress at the previous proceedings on December 3 due to fresh applications that surfaced in court that day.
Again, the matter could not proceed on Tuesday after counsel for parties seeking to be joined as co-defendants in the suit, sought an adjournment.
The interested parties sought an adjournment in order to respond to Tambuwal’s counter-affidavit which was filed in opposition to their separate applications for stay of proceedings.
Their applications for stay of proceedings were hinged on the grounds that they had filed notices of appeal against the ruling of the court which had disallowed them to be joined as defendants in the suit.
The parties seeking to join the suit as defendants are the representatives of Tambuwal’s kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency in Sokoto State.
One the two sets of the interested parties are the Chairman of Kebbe Local Government Area, Bala Konkani, and Chairman of Tambuwal Local Government Area, Sambo Modo.The other set of interested parties are three members of the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Abdussamad Dasuki, Suleiman Hantsi and Shuaibu Umar – representing Tambuwal East, Tambuwal West and Kebbe constituencies respectively.
The constituents are opposed to Tambuwal’s removal as Speaker and declaration of his seat vacant, arguing that removing him would deprive them of representation in the House of Representatives.On Tuesday, Tambuwal’s lead counsel, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), informed the court that his team had filed a counter-affidavit to the applications seeking stay of proceedings.
Counsel for the interested parties, Israel Olorundare (SAN) and Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), then asked court for a short adjournment to enable them respond to the plaintiff’s counter affidavit.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed after listening to the submissions of parties on Tuesday adjourned till December 16 to hear the application for stay of proceedings.
Justice Mohammed had disallowed the interested parties to be joined in the suit on the grounds that their stance in the suit ran contrary to that of the existing co-defendants on record.
Also pending before the court is an application asking the court to jail the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, for allegedly flouting an order of the court.
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