Ortom floors Benue LG chairman in court
dismissed the suit filed by ten local government chairmen against the
Governor of Benue State, and the State House of Assembly.
The council chairmen had approached the court asking it to restrain
the Governor from removing them from office before the end of their
tenures.
The Judge based his ruling on the preliminary objection raised by the
Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice through the Director of
Civil Rights Litigation, Simon Egede, who informed the court that the
action did not disclose any reasonable cause of action which he
submitted was speculative, academic and an abuse of court processes.
He added that the council chairmen had not disclosed facts to support
the claim of an alleged threat to dissolve the local government
councils, sack, or suspend them and appoint caretaker chairmen.
He thereafter urged the court to dismiss the action as it was
incompetent for non disclosure of cause of action against the
Governor.
Ruling, Justice Itodo said it was not enough for the council chairmen
led by Terdoo Nyor and Dennis Akura to invite the court to interpret a
piece of legislation without providing any basis for such invitation.
He said, by law, the action of the council chairmen did not state any
wrongful act of the Governor or House of Assembly.
He accordingly upheld the preliminary objection and dismissed the suit.
Reacting, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr
Micheal Gusa, described the judgment as sound and called on all local
government chairmen in the state to direct their energy towards the
development of their areas instead of rushing to court on frivolous
reasons.
He said the Governor had no intention to dissolve the local government
chairmen as speculated.
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