Hearing in the suit filed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, seeking to commit the Inspector-General of Police to prison for alleged contempt of court was Thursday, stalled by the people of Kebbe/Tambuwal Federal Constituency of Sokoto State who filed an application for stay of proceedings.

The Speaker had filed the suit at a Federal High Court following alleged attempts to declare his seat vacant and the withdrawal of his security details following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, the party on whose platform he was elected as the Speaker of the House.

The proceedings was, however, stalled after the Speaker’s constituent, through their lawyers, informed the court that they had filed two separate applications for stay of proceedings in the suit.

Their applications for stay of proceedings were hinged on the notices of appeal filed against the ruling of the court which on Monday disallowed them to be joined as defendants in the suit.

Tambuwal’s lawyer, however, asked the court to adjourn the matter to enable him respond to the applications for stay of proceedings filed by the parties seeking to be joined.

Lawyers to defendants opposed the application for adjournment.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed adjourned the case to December 9 for hearing of applications seeking leave to appeal, stay of proceedings and the one seeking an order compelling the Inspector-General of Police to appear in court.

purplesummer:
I wonder why the affected constituency was denied the opportunity to be joined when they have sufficient interest in the suit. But then again, if they have not been joined, do they have the locus standi to bring an application for stay of proceedings when they are not a party before the court?

Waiting for the ruling of the court.

purplesummer:
I wonder why the affected constituency was denied the opportunity to be joined when they have sufficient interest in the suit. But then again, if they have not been joined, do they have the locus standi to bring an application for stay of proceedings when they are not a party before the court?

Waiting for the ruling of the court.

kelvincoll:


I'm impressed

nairalife2013:
This young man I respected so much has joined the line up of those who wrongly but adamantly are bent on rubishing themselves... do things honourably now that itx not too late pls. Dont make your once promising future smaller than the past. Stop turning yur fire into a billowing smoke that would soon ultimately be lost in the wind leaving behind a mound of white or black ash, both of which may be useless items alas!

p3ndy79:
hahahahahaha the most foolish people are gathered in the PDP. When the substancial suit is left fallow and you now have counter suits on stay of proceedings and judicial mumbo jumbo without relevance. What you will get is adjournment and postponement. By the time the real case is called up, Tambuwal done finish 2nd term as governor of sokoto state in 2023.