A court is set to decide Hope Uzodinma's removal as Imo State Governor.
NewsOne Nigeria reports that Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, has adjourned a suit asking the court to restrain Governor Hope Uzodinma from acting as Imo governor.
When the suit filed by the 2019 governorship candidate of the Reform and Advancement Party (RAP), Okere Kingdom, was called on Wednesday, the 2019 Imo governorship candidate told the court that he filed an application praying the court to abridge the time within which the defendants would file their responses.
The defendants have 30 days under the rule of law, to respond but the plaintiff told the court that he made the application for the court to abridge the time due to the urgency of the matter, this is even as the RAP governorship, who is also a lawyer, held that the matter was of constitutional importance because Uzodinma was occupying the seat of Imo governor illegally, having not participated in the 2019 election as a candidate of any political party.
All the defendants in the case objected to the application on the grounds that they needed the time given by the constitution to respond, with Alhassan Umar (SAN), the counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), praying the court that in line with the principles of fair hearing, the defendants needed to take sufficient time as allocated by the law to respond.
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