A Federal High Court in Abuja has set Dec. 5 for a ruling on an application filed by David Ukpo, the kidney donor, asking the court to overturn orders issued on July 1 and 6 that granted Senator Ike Ekweremadu, former Deputy Senate President, and his wife, Beatrice, access to his biodata.
After counsel for the parties in the suit adopted their processes and presented their arguments, Justice Inyang Ekwo set the date.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Ukpo filed a motion on notice marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/984/202, urging the court to set aside the orders directing some government agencies and banks to release his biodata to Ekweremadu and his wife.
Ukpo, who joined the Ekweremadus as applicants/respondents in the motion, also named the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) (1st respondent) and four others as applicants/respondents in the application.
The Comptroller General (C-G), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Stanbic-IBTC Bank, United Bank of Africa (UBA), and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc were also named as respondents in the motion, but the 5th respondent was later dropped from the charge.
Ukpo, who is currently in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with the alleged organ harvesting charge against the Ekweremadus, claimed that granting the couple’s request violated his fundamental right to privacy, which is guaranteed by Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
However, in a counter-affidavit deposed to by Bright Ekweremadu, the ex-deputy senate President’s immediate younger brother, the applicants claimed that Ukpo was not entitled to the reliefs sought because the law does not allow it.
Their counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, filed the counter-affidavit on September 8.
Bright argued in a 20-point argument that even though the court issued its decision on July 1, Ukpo’s right to a fair hearing was not violated.
He stated that the documents released by the agencies and banks in response to court orders had been transmitted to the UK and “tendered at the Uxbridge Magistrate Court and at the Central Criminal Court in the UK and have subsequently formed part of the courts’ record.”
At the resumption of the hearing on Tuesday, Eyitayo Falogun, SAN, who represented Ekweremadus, adopted his applications and urged the court to reject Ukpo’s request.
He stated that he was aware that the motion was initiated on Ukpo’s behalf by a coalition of civil society organizations under the auspices of the Edo Civil Society Organisation (EDOSCO).
Falogun, who called the court’s attention to Upko’s motion, called EDOSCO a “messy interloper.”
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Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal will on October 26 begin a full hearing of the petition filed by Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the declaration of Senator Ademola Adeleke as governor-elect.
Lifestyle Nigeria reports that the tribunal made this pronouncement after concluding the pre-hearing session on Thursday.
The tribunal was asked to dismiss the applications of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), seeking the discontinuation of the petition brought to it by Governor Oyetola.
Counsel for Oyetola and the APC, Lasun Sanusi, SAN, at the sitting of the tribunal argued that Adeleke’s, PDP’s and INEC’s reliance on a Federal Court High judgment was nothing but an abuse of court process.
Sanusi argued this while replying to separate applications of the trio, seeking the dismissal of the petition based on the already appealed Federal High Court judgment disqualifying Oyetola from contesting the election.
Citing Supreme Court decisions in the case of Jegede Vs INEC, 2021, 14NWLR, Pt 1797, page 409, the counsel said the court had ruled that the signatories to the letter conveying the nomination of a candidate were not the nominators; rather, the nomination was done by party members at the congress, hence, the judgment could not stand.
Meanwhile, the counsel for INEC, Prof. Paul Ananaba, SAN; counsel for Adeleke, Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN and counsel for the PDP, Dr. Alex Izinyon, SAN, agreed that any decision the tribunal would take on the matter would have to wait until the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court decided on it.
They noted that they just decided to argue the applications to have it on record, a position which the tribunal agreed with and put on record.
Also, in other applications totalling nine by the three respondents, they asked the tribunal to strike out some paragraphs of the petition on the grounds that they were either lumped together or not related to the 2022 election.
In response to each of the applications, Sanusi said all the cases cited by the respondents were misconceived, adding that they were not applicable in the instance case.
He cited the case of INEC Vs Otti, 2016, 8NWLR, where the Supreme Court hinted that INEC was supposed to be neutral, arguing that all the processes filed before the panel have not portrayed the commission’s neutrality.
Sanusi further argued that the applications filed by the respondents were only meant to prevent the tribunal from focusing on hearing the petition on merit, asking the panel to dismiss the applications.
Subsequently, counsel for all parties in the matter agreed to begin the full hearing starting with the calling of witnesses on October 26.
In his ruling, the tribunal declared the pre-hearing session concluded and announced that the pre-hearing conference report would be presented on October 17.
NEWS UPDATE?Nigeria Air Force who died in the crashed NAF Alpha-jet that crashed in Borno state laid to rest (photos)
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The remains of Flight Lieutenant Chapele Ebiakpo, one of the pilots of the NAF Alpha-Jet aircraft that crashed in Maiduguri, Borno state on March 31, 2021, have been laid to rest.
It will be recalled that the Nigerian Air Force fighter jet was declared missing on 31 March 2021 after losing radar contact. The crash site was later discovered and the bodies of the two pilots onboard the ill-fated jet were recovered. The pilots were on the battlefield fight Boko Haram members when the jet crashed.
On Thursday, October 13, friends and family members of the Late Ebiakpo gathered together at the National Military cemetery to bid him farewell. May his soul rest in peace, Amen.
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