Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and
his deputy, Kolapo Olusola, have raced to a Federal High Court in Abuja
to stop the 19 All Progressives Congress members of the state House of
Assembly from impeaching them.
But they met a brick wall as the judge,
Justice Ahmed Mohammed, turned down their request and granted only the
prayers contained in their ex parte application relating to the service
of the court processes on the defendants.
Fayose and Olusola, in the ex parte
application, asked for an interim order stopping the impeachment
notice served on them and the moves to remove them from office.
Rather than granting the prayers for
interim injunction, Justice Mohammed ordered the defendants in the suit,
including the Speaker of the House, Adewale Omirin, and the Chief Judge
of the state, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, to appear in his court on April
16.
They are to show cause why the order of interim injunctions being sought by the plaintiffs should not be granted.
Apart from Omirin and Daramola, the
other defendants in the suit are the Inspector-General of Police,
Suleiman Abba, and the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The plaintiffs, apart from Fayose and
Olusola, are the House of Assembly and Olugbemi Dele, who was
appointed by seven Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers as their speaker.
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