The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court,
yesterday, aborted moves by the ousted deputy
governor of Adamawa state, Mr. Bala James Ngilari,
to stop the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, from conducting a bye-election to replace the impeached governor of the state,
Admiral . Murtala Nyako. In a ruling yesterday, Justice Ademola Adeniyi
rejected Ngilari’s ex-parte application seeking for
an interim order to restrain INEC from going ahead
with the planned election, pending the
determination of a suit challenging his removal
from office. Ngilari had through his lawyer Mr. Festus Keyamo, approached the High Court, asking
it to declare him governor. He specifically urged the
court to among other things, declare that by virtue
of Section 191 (c) of the constitution. 191(1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria (as amended), after the
impeachment of Nyako (5th Defendant) as
Governor of Adamawa State, he ought to have
been sworn in as the substantive governor of the
state. He prayed the court to hold that by the combined
provisions of Section 191(1) and 306 (1), (2) and
(5) of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of
Nigeria (as amended), the swearing-in of the 3rd
Defendant (Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru) as Acting
Governor of Adamawa State on July 15, 2014, was illegal and unconstitutional. Besides, Ngilari sought for a declaration that by the
combined provisions of Section 306 (1), (2) and (5)
of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of
Nigeria, as amended, he, as Deputy Governor of
Adamawa State, he did not resign his office by
addressing a letter of resignation dated July 15, 2014 to the Speaker of the State House of
Assembly, who he joined as the 1st defendant in
the matter. However, Justice Adeniyi declined to grant any of
his prayers, rather the court directed that he should
go back and put INEC on notice by serving it with
all the necessary court processes. The court slated next Tuesday to hear the motion
on notice. The court okayed prayer by Ngilari to be allowed to
serve the defendants via substituted means, to wit,
by publishing the processes in Newspapers. Ngilari, whose office was declared vacant on July
15 by the state’s lawmakers following Nyako’s
impeachment, in an affidavit he personally deposed
before the court, averred that at all times material to
the action, “I was the Deputy Governor of
Adamawa State until the 15th of July, 2014, when the 1st and 2nd Defendants purportedly declared
my office vacant.
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www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/adamawa-nyakos-deputy-ngilari-loses-bid-stop-bye-election/

Bt dis man resign now, wat does he want again?

He is free to join Tinubu and his APC minions.