On Wednesday, November 9, 2022, a former member of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume, approached a Federal High Court in Abuja, with a suit challenging his removal as non-executive chairman, Board of the newly-incorporated Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. Araraume joined in the suit, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the NNPC Limited as first and second defendants respectively.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, who presided, adverted the attention of the lead counsel for the plaintiff, Chris Uche to Order 9, Rule 14 of the Federal High Court Rules 2019 on proceedings not defeated by misjoinder or non-joinder, which allows a judge to make an order for a party or parties, whose presence in a matter is pertinent, to be joined.
The right to a remedy is one of the fundamental rights historically recognized in all legal systems.Flowing from the postulation supra, those who think that Araraume is fighting President Muhammadu Buhari by going to court to challenge his alleged wrongful removal are, with all due respects, getting it wrong. After all, the first defendant is the Office of the President of Nigeria. Anybody that occupies it from May 29, 2023 will be bound by whatever the outcome of the suit is.
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