Justice Yetunde Pinheiro of the Lagos State Excessive Court docket Ikeja on Friday adjourned the go well with filed by Hon Mudashiru Obasa difficult his removing as speaker of the Lagos Home of Meeting to Monday to listen to all new and pending purposes within the matter.
Justice Pinheiro ordered that each one events file and serve all needed processes on themselves to allow the court docket to listen to all of the purposes on the subsequent adjourned date.
In some pending purposes, the deputy speaker and 36 different lawmakers are asking the court docket to dismiss the go well with or strike it out, arguing that the matter has turn out to be an instructional train.
Two new counsel, Olusola Idowu and Clement Onwuenwunor (SAN), purportedly representing the 4 lawmakers who voted towards the impeachment of Obasa, additionally got here into the matter. Additionally they have pending purposes, having now joined the go well with.
After listening to the legal professionals, Justice Pinheiro mentioned she’s going to adjourn the matter until Monday within the curiosity of justice.
After the court docket proceedings, Obasa’s counsel, Fashanu, knowledgeable journalists exterior the courtroom that, along with difficult his removing for failure to comply with due course of, his consumer can also be contesting the allegations listed within the discover of removing.
He mentioned that the allegations embody fraud, high-handedness, abuse of workplace, and gross misconduct, and Fashanu emphasised that his consumer was not given a good listening to.
Additionally, one of many legal professionals representing 34 lawmakers not too long ago added to the go well with, Romeo Michael, acknowledged that they’ve a counterclaim.
He mentioned that they’re urging the court docket to declare that Obasa’s removing was constitutional underneath Part 92 of the 1999 Nigerian Structure moderately than being ruled by the foundations of the Lagos meeting.
Obasa, within the go well with, is urging the court docket to declare that his colleagues within the Home acted unlawfully by eradicating him whereas the Meeting was in recess.
Within the software dated February 12, 2025, the embattled lawmaker claimed that he was faraway from his place on January 13, 2025, by 36 lawmakers whereas he was in a foreign country.
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