Court restores Lawal as Kogi Assembly Speaker
Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday ordered the reinstatement of the former Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Hon Momoh Jimoh Lawal to office.
Lawal and 9 other principal officers of the House had questioned their purported removal from office by the Hon. Umar Imam-led group on February 16, 2016, insisting that due process of the law was not followed.
Other plaintiffs in the suit are Honourables Aliyu Akuh (deputy speaker), Kolawole Matthew, Osiyi Godwin, Sunday Shigaba, Ndako Idris, Oluwatoyin Lawal, Musa Jimoh, Victor Omofaye and the Peoples Democratic Party.
The defendants include: Umar Imam, Friday Sani, Lawal Ahmed, Bello Abdullahi and John Abah, 1st to 5th respectively.
Others include the IGP, DG-DSS, Commandant Civil Defence Corps and Kogi State House of Assembly.
The legal tussle revolved around the transition of leadership of the house between the two contending parties, consisting of the plaintiffs on one side and the defendants on the other.
While delivering judgement on the matter, Justice Dimgba ordered the 1st to 5th defendants to “Immediately vacate the different offices they now purportedly occupy by reason of the purported impeachment of the Speaker and other key officers.
Consequently, Justice Dimgba directed the Speaker (Lawal) and the other Principal Officers (2nd to 9th plaintiffs) to immediately resume their duties in their different offices as they were never impeached and/or removed.
Court restores Lawal as Kogi Assembly Speaker
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