The state high court’s removal of Tijani Ahmed-Anaje, the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, by the Kogi government has been brought in by the Kogi government’s appeal to the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
Mr Muzi Abdullahi (SAN), the Kogi Attorney General, who is the 2nd claimant in the appeal, made this known to Channels Television.
In a lawsuit brought by Daudu Adeku-Ojiah, Hussain Yusuf, and Abdulrahaam Suberu as first, second, and third plaintiffs, Justice Umar Salisu of the Lokoja High Court contested former governor Yahaya Bello’s appointment as the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland’s lawyer.
The plaintiffs, represented by Mr Lawal Rabana (SAN), had sued Governor Ahmed Ododo, the State Attorney General, Muzi Abdullahi, and the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Ahmed-Anaje, as 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants in the case which began in okene before its transfer to Lokoja.
The three plaintiffs had asked the court to declare that the procedure for appointing the third defendant to the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland was unlawful and erroneous.
Additionally, they argued that the procedure was incompatible with the 1997 Edict No 3 directing the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland’s appointment.
Ododo and the attorney-general in their appeal, which has Adeku-Ojiah, Yusuf, and Suberu as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Respondents, challenged the decision of the lower court.
The state government requested that the appellate court grant the reliefs sought and issue an order revoke the lower court’s decision.
Additionally, they petitioned the trial court to dismiss the first-to-third-respondents’ claims because they lacked merit.
They said that the ruling in HCO/12c/2006 that is Exhibit 1, relied upon by the 1st to 3rd Respondents was an interlocutory ruling in respect of processing, nomination, selection and appointment of some set of persons at the time, as Ohis to the five districts of Okengwe/Okene, Eia, lhima, Adavi and Eganyi.
They argued in their five appeals that “the Learned Trial Judge erred in law and reached a perverse decision when he relied heavily on Exhibit P. O. 4 from an” Affidavit of Facts in Response to the 1s, 2nd, and 3rd Defendants Notice of Preliminary Objection.”
They argued that the Learned Trial Court made a mistaken decision when it relied on an interlocutory decision in the case HCO/12c/2006 between Dr. Habibu Angulu Sani and the Kogi Govt. &, 5 Ors.
They claimed that the trial judge erred in law when he assumed the appellant’s jurisdiction to hear and decide this instant suit, but in reality he lacked jurisdiction.
Additionally, they claimed that the court’s decision violated the trial’s evidence-presenting weight.
Source: Channels TV
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