Court Rejects Move To Stop Inauguration Of Akpabio, Aregbesola, Fashola Others As Ministers

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has refused an application to stop the inauguration of the 43 ministerial nominees by  President Muhammadu Buhari over the non-inclusion of an FCT indigene in the cabinet list. 

The court, on Monday, in its judgement by Justice Taiwo Taiwo,  ruled  that the suit was coming rather too late and therefore there might be no reason to stop the inauguration.

Mr Musa Baba-Panya, the applicant, had on Thursday, approached the court with an exparte motion to stop the president from inaugurating the ministers.

In suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/878/19, Baba-panya, who is also the counsel in the case, noted that the exclusion of FCT indigenes in the cabinet list by Buhari was contrary to an Appeal Court’s judgment delivered on March 15, 2018.

In the suit, President Buhari was put as the 1st defendant while the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) was the 2nd defendant.

Baba-panya, in an originating summon date Aug. 7 and filed Aug. 8, said that, “the 43 confirmed ministerial appointees now awaiting swearing-in or inauguration as the Federal Executive Council is incomplete, illegal, unconstitutional, null, void and of no effect whatsoever.”

Justice Taiwo Taiwo rule against the suit, which implies that President Buhari who go on to inaugurate the ministers nominees as scheduled on August 21st, 2019.

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