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The National Assembly cannot review or approve the nominations of Ms. Lauretta Onochie and Chief Samuel Ogbuku, according to an injunction from the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The pair needed to be interviewed before being officially approved as the Niger Delta Development Commission’s chairman and managing director, respectively.
Justice J. K. Omotosho, the preeminent judge, issued an order suspending any further proceedings awaiting the outcome of the lawsuit.
The originating summons with the file number FHC/ABJ/CS/2294/2022, among other things, requests a restraining order against the National Assembly reviewing and confirming the pair.
The Itsekiri ethnic nationality’s plaintiffs, Chief Edward Ekpokpo Esq., Victor Wood, who is representing the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, and Mr. Edward Omagbemi, who is presenting Omadino Unity Forum, are contesting the nomination on the grounds that it is their turn to hold the seats.
President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, Senate President Ahmad Lawan, the House of Senate, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, and Chief Samuel Ogbuku are the first through sixth defendants in the lawsuit.
The NDDC Act’s rules must be obeyed, according to the lawsuit brought by Ama Etuwewe SAN & Co.
It claimed that the Itsekiri ethnic nationality, which produces the majority of oil in Delta State, is due to produce the NDDC board chairman and MD.
After reading the affidavit and speaking with the plaintiff’s attorney, Justice J. K. Omotosho, the presiding court, adjourned the case to January 11, 2023, for further hearing.
This court hereby gives the plaintiffs permission to use a replacement method of serving the fifth and sixth defendants in this lawsuit, namely by publishing notice of the processes in at least one national newspaper published within its geographic jurisdiction.
That it is hereby ordered that none of the parties to this lawsuit shall take any action that could influence the resolution of the ongoing request for an injunction Dated and submitted as nugatory on December 12, 2022.
That any action conducted in accordance with this order to render the result of the aforementioned motion on notice filed on December 12, 2022, null and void, shall be a nullity.
Vincent Paul
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