The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Olamide Oladiji, has dragged Justice Emeka Nwite before the National Judicial Council (NJC) over the ex-parte
Justice Nwite had on September 26 restrained the Assembly from commencing impeachment process against Aiyedatiwa.
“As your lordship would observe, annexure ODHA contains 14 allegations, many of which relate to alleged financial improprieties running into hundreds of millions of naira.” “My lord, as a Judge of the Federal High Court, Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite knows or ought to know that there are extant circulars and practice directions prohibiting Federal High Court Judges from granting ex parte injunctions in political cases and/or taking cases that did not originate from their immediate Judicial Divisions.”
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