Saraki’s: Court strikes out suit seeking to stop impeachment plan
A suit praying the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to stop the impeachment of Senate President Bukola Saraki has been struck out.
The presiding judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, struck out the case on Thursday for lack of diligent prosecution.
This followed an application by the Attorney General of Federation, Abubakar Malami, who was represented by Mr. TD Agbe on Thursday after the lawyers for the plaintiffs failed to show up in court.
The suit was filed by Senators Adebayo Rafiu from Kwara State and Issa Misau from Bauchi State. The two senators are former members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
The AGF also asked the court to award a cost of N10million against the plaintiffs who he accused of filing a frivolous suit.
Insisting that the plaintiffs were aware of the case coming up today, the AGF said: “We apply for a substantial cost to be awarded against the plaintiffs to teach them a lesson. This court is not a play ground, it is a place for serious business”, the AGF submitted.
Counsel to the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Kola Oluwole and that of the Department of State Service, Mr. Shimana Azeh, adopted the position of the AGF and requested that the case should be struck out.
In hisruling, Justice Dimgba acceded to request of the Defendants and struck out the case for want of deligent prosecution.
The plaintiffs had alleged that some chieftains of their former party, APC, led by its National Chairman, Adams Oshiomohole and the AGF, had perfected plans to use security agencies to force Saraki to vacate his position as the Senate President.
They applied for an order of interlocutory injunction stopping any impeachment proceeding against Saraki, pending the determination of legal issues they posed before the court.
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