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Contrary to insinuations in some quarters, the Senate
Unity Forum (SUF) on Wednesday said it is going ahead
with its suit on the forgery of the Senate Standing Orders
against Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his
deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.
Other defendants are the Clerk of the National Assembly,
the Clerk of the Senate, the Senate, and the National
Assembly.
Senators Suleiman Hunkuyi, Kabir Garba Marafa, Abu
Ibrahim, Robert Ajayi Boroffice and Gbenga Ashafa
insisted that they are not going back on their case before
the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The Forum made the clarifications in a statement issued
by their counsel, Mamman Mike Osuman (SAN), against
the backdrop of reports that the SUF has withdrawn its
suit (FHC/ABJ/CS/651/2015) on the forgery of the
purported Senate Standing Orders 2015.
There were reports on Tuesday that Justice Ademola
Adeniyi of the Federal High Court struck out the suit by
the five Senators on behalf of the Senate Unity Forum
(SUF).
The counsel to the SUF, Mamman Mike Osuman (SAN)
said it was “erroneous and mischievous” to claim that
the suit by the five Senators had been withdrawn.
He disclosed that it was the first suit (FHC/ABJ/
CS/647/2015) filed by Senator Anthony Adeniyi, who
served in the 7th Senate that was withdrawn to avoid
abuse of court process.
He said: “Despite the legal possibility that the suit
discontinued by Sen. Anthony Adeniyi could be re-filed,
the media should have been more specific about the
case withdrawn.
“Contrary to the misinformation put out there, we hereby
confirm the originating summons in suit no: FHC/ABJ/
CS/651/2015 filed at the instance of the above-named
Senators against Saraki, Ekweremadu and the National
Assembly.
“The above particularized suit differs in contents from
that of Sen. Adeniyi as can be distilled from their
respective grounds, reliefs sought, affidavit evidence,
parties and declarations sought.”
Osuman insisted that the prayers, sought by the five
Senators in the originating summons, were still
subsisting.

http://thenationonlineng.net/senate-rules-unity-forum-pushes-ahead-with-suit-against-saraki-ekweremadu/

Our Law makers and their melo drama. I doubt if Saraki or Ekweremadu wld be coming down anytime soon. SUF should quit the SUG stuff and make good laws. that'sall

Interesting. ...

waste of time...

Saraki's biggest undoing is his partnership with the PDP. That the WailingLooters are supporting him now is because of that dubious affiliation. BTW, the issue of Forgery must be dealt with on its merit and not thrown out on Technicalities. We cannot have Criminals making Laws for us.

Let there be peace

Nigeria media practitioners are a bunch of confusionist. They don't do any meaningful investigation before they go ahead to publish outright lies and misinformed the public. It's good the Senate unity forum are making this clarification now.

omowolewa:
Let there be peace

How does ascertaining if there was Forgery or not - an absence of Peace. We want a good Nigeria, yet still want to be sweeping issue under the carpet.