A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has today cancelled a suit by Lagos state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, challenging the purported election of Plateau state Governor, Jonah Jang, as chairman of a faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).
On June 2, 2013, Fashola had filed a suit demanding the court to stop Jang from parading himself as the elected Chairman of the NGF.
However, on July 17, he filed a motion on notice seeking to withdraw the case. His lead counsel, Prof. Yemi Osibajo explained that Fashola did it to enable him to put his house in order.
Jang and two other defendants,in turn, opposed the motion. Jang’s lawyer, Tayo Oyetibo, insisted that the time for Fashola to bring the motion passed as the parties in the suit had already determined issues for determination.
In her ruling, Justice Affen, asked the defendants to allow Fashola’s counsel to first move his motion for withdrawal before advancing reasons for opposing it.
It will be recalled that Fashola sued Jang after the latter had set up a parallel NGF faction few hours after he was defeated 19 to 16 votes by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.
Details of the judgment are still incomplete at the moment of reporting. We will keep you updated.
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