Three chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have asked the National Judicial Council (NJC) to sanction A.L. Akintola, judge of the Oyo state high court, over alleged judicial indiscretion and abuse of office.
The PDP chieftains — Austin Nwachukwu, Amah Nnanna, and
Turnah George — are plaintiffs in a case at the federal high court in Abuja,
with suit no: FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025.
The federal high court had restrained the PDP from holding
its planned national elective convention slated for November 15 and 16 in
Ibadan, Oyo state capital.
However, on November 4, the state high court in Oyo ordered
the PDP and Umar Damagum, the national chairman, to proceed with the party’s
national convention.
In a petition to the NJC, Nwachukwu, Nnanna, and George,
believed to be associates of Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital
territory (FCT), who has opposed the convention, accused Akintola of issuing an
ex parte order that contradicted a subsisting judgement of the federal high
court.
The petitioners said the order given by Akintola amounts to
“judicial indiscretion and abuse of office”.
“Even a non-lawyer knows that a State High Court lacks the
authority to function as an appellate Court over a decision of the Federal High
Court,” the petition reads.
“Therefore, the Ex-Parte Order made by Justice A.L.
Akintola, despite the conclusive determination of a similar Suit at the Federal
High Court with finality, undermines and further casts aspersions on the
Judicial Reforms being championed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
“By Justice A.L. Akintola’s Ex-Parte Order, his lordship had
thus appointed and constituted himself into an appellate Court and had sat on
appeal over the judgment of the Federal High Court and varied same via an
Ex-Parte Order.
“His lordship cannot feign ignorance of the judgment of the
Federal High Court on the same subject matter because Justice Omotosho’s
judgment was not only widely televised on many National Media Houses like NTA,
TVC, Arise News, Channels Television and others but also circulated and
reported on many National Dailies like Daily Trust Newspaper, The Nation as
well as other online News Media.”
The petitioners asked the NJC to probe Akintola over the ex
parte order and “ensure judicial space is sanitised”.
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