Araraume had sued President Muhammadu Buhari for removing him 'unlawfully' as board chairman of NNPC in January 2022.
At a federal high court in Abuja on Monday, Konyinsola Ajayi, a senior advocate of Nigeria and counsel to the corporation, while adopting his processes, informed Ekwo of an application seeking to stay proceedings in the suit.Ajayi also informed the judge of “interrogatories” he was willing to file but the court rejected it.
Interrogatories are questions formulated by a litigant to their opponents to further clarify matters that will be raised in the substantive suit. Without success, the NNPC lawyer filed for an application to withdraw from the case, and Ekwo told him to do what was best for him. Subsequently, Ajayi took his leave from the court room with Utigwe Uwa, another lawyer with whom he had appeared for the NNPC.The case was adjourned till March 28 for ruling on the applications and hearing of the substantive suit.
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