An FCT High Court sitting in Bwari Thursday, restrained the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki from declaring the seat of former Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, vacant.
Justice Othman Musa also ordered Saraki not to impede Senator Akpabio’s access to the Senate building or take any action aimed at “overreaching his privileges and rights as a Senator pending the determination of the originating Summons of the applicant.”
He ordered service of the originating Summons and other processes on Saraki through either the Clerk of the National Assembly, Clerk of the Senate or any other Clerk or reasonable staff of the National Assembly at the Assembly complex.
The judge made the order sequel to an ex parte application by Akpabio’s lawyers, Chikaosolu Ojukwu and Ebere Ahanonu, seeking to stop moves to declare his seat vacant following his defection from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
He adjourned the case to August 29 for further hearing.
