Court adjourns until June 7 suit seeking disqualification of Gbajabiamila

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned until
Friday, hearing in a suit challenging the nomination of Mr Femi
Gbajabiamila, a member of the House of Representative vying for the
position of Speaker of the House of Representatives in the incoming
9th National Assembly.

Justice Inyang Ekwo adjourned the suit, following the prayer of
Chief Philip Undie’s counsel, Mr Olasupo Azeez, that the defendant
was yet to be served with the originating process.

Azeez earlier prayed the court for a short adjournment to enable
the plaintiff regularise the processes before the court and to
serve all the defendants by way of substituted means and it was
granted.

Undie in the suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/539/2019 is challenging the
eligibility of Gbajabiamila on the grounds that he has a criminal
alleghation in the state of Georgia, U.S.

Other defendants in the suit are: the House of Representative,
Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and the All Progressives
Congress (APC).

The plaintiff in the suit said that Gbajabiamila ought not to be
allowed to contest for the position of the Speaker of the House of
Representatives based on information that he had been criminally
convicted by the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. (NAN)

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