The fresh fundamental rights enforcement suit is the third which the Senate President has filed before both the Lagos and Abuja divisions of the Federal High Court to stop his trial since September, when the Federal Government filed the charges against him.
We learnt on Wednesday that Justice Abdulkadir Abdul-Kafarati on Monday (November 16) refused to grant the order of interim injunction sought by Saraki through an ex parte application.
Rather than grant the ex parte motion moved by the Senate President’s lawyer, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, Justice Abdul-Kafarati ordered the respondents to the suit to appear before the court on Friday to show cause why the prayers sought by Saraki should not be granted.
A copy of the court order sighted by our correspondent on Wednesday showed that the fresh suit was filed by Saraki the same day a similar one which he filed before Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court was struck out for lack of jurisdiction.
Justice Buba had struck out the suit on the grounds that it ought to have been filed in Abuja where he said was the place issues that were being complained of by Saraki arose, instead of Lagos.
Punch
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