Abuja Court Invites Amnesty Boss, Dokubo, Over Alleged Illegal Stay In Office
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal high court in Abuja has issued a summon on the Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari, and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo, to appear before it over his alleged illegal stay in office.
The order
was given by Justice Ahmed Mohammed on November 7 where the court also directed
that Dokubo should appear on November 12 to show cause why the order sought
against him in an exparte motion should not be granted.
The plaintiff in the suit, Mr. Fred Akepe Ujobolo, had through his counsel, Mr.
Oluwafemi Olawuyi approached the court in an exparte motion to declare the
continuous stay in office of Professor Dokubo as illegal.
The plaintiff also joined the Attoney-General of the Federation (AGF) as the
second defendant in the matter.
In an affidavit in support of the exparte motion, deposed to by Jeffrey Bolimi
Amosu, Spokesman of the Niger Delta Transparency and Accountability Movement on
behalf of the plaintiff, he said despite the pendency of the suit, Dokubo is
still occupying, acting and enjoying the office as the head of the Amnesty
Programme.
In the originating summons, dated October 30,
the plaintiff asked for an interim injunction restraining Dokubo from continued
occupying the office of the Special Adviser to the President and the
Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme pending the determination of
the substantive suit.
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