APC: Okorocha loses again as court nullifies suspension of five Imo lawmakers
indefinite suspension slammed on five Imo lawmakers by the leadership
of the state House of Assembly last June.
Justice Anunihu, who is the administrative judge of the state High
Court, also awarded a cost of N8 million against the state Assembly.
Five members of the Imo State House of Assembly, perceived to be loyal
to the Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, were suspended,
indefinitely, in what the Speaker, Acho Ihim, had alleged to be
"unparliamentary conduct" unbecoming of legislators.
The affected lawmakers were Chiji Collins, Isiala Mbano state
constituency, Ifeanyi Nnataraonye, Mbaitoli (deputy Governor's LGA),
Uche Oguwuike, Ikeduru state constituency (deputy governor's in-law)
and Ikenna Nzeruo, representing Oru east state constituency.
They were members of the coalition alliance, who had refused to join
in the impeachment plot against the deputy governor and the alleged
N50 million oath taking and endorsement of Governor Rochas Okorocha's
son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, as his successor in 2019.
In his judgement, the presiding judge described the purported
suspension of the lawmakers as an act of impunity of the highest order
by the leadership of the state Assembly.
Justice Anunihu also restrained the leadership of the Assembly, its
agents, privies, servants from interfering, stopping, impeding in a
manner, whatsoever, in the rights of the lawmakers as members of Imo
State House Assembly.
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