by Godwin Akanfe

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has yesterday Friday November 7, 2014 adjourned hearing of the substantive suit and Preliminary Objection filed by the Federal Government to November 17, 2014 and declined making Orders for the restoration of Tambuwal’s privileges which he was stripped of.

The Federal government’s lawyers, Mr. Ade Okeaya-Inneh SAN and Dr Fabian Ajogwu SAN had filed an objection on Thursday on the grounds that the reliefs sought by Mr. Aminu Tambuwal against the Federal Government in his Originating Summons dated October 30, 2014 are indeterminable, merely academic and constitutionally ungrantable. They hereby urge the Court to dismiss the case in its entirety

One of such reliefs that the Plaintiffs are  seeking is for an Order of mandatory injunction compelling the 5th and 7th Defendants to restore to Mr. Aminu Tambuwal his security details and other rights, benefits and privileges appurtenant to members of and of the office of the Hon. Speaker of the 3rd Defendant. The Counsel to the Federal Government argued in their written address that such relief is grossly vague, ambiguous and at best speculative and consequently amounts to no relief at all. The gamut of their objection to this suit was hinged on the provisions of Section 215(5) of the 1999 Constitution as amended which provides that the powers of the Inspector-General of Police relating to maintenance and securing of public safety and public order shall not be enquired into by any Court.

Meanwhile, at the Court sitting yesterday, the Court once again declined granting the reliefs being sought for by Mr. Tambuwal in his Motion paper for Interlocutory Injunctions. Court instead adjourned the eharing of the substantive suit to November 17, 2014