Lawyer drags Buhari to court over ‘lopsided’ appointments

Unsatisfied that the recent appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari does not satisfy the federal character principle laid out in the country’s Constitution, a lawyer, Marcel Dim-Udebuani, on Tuesday approached a Federal High Court in Abuja to nullify all 25 major appointments made so far by the president.
The lawyer in his suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/732/2015, joined the Chairman, Federal Character Commission as the second defendant.
According to him, the 25 appointments made so far by the President were in breach of the spirit of federal character enshrined in section 14 (3) of 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The plaintiff in the fresh suit prayed the court to reverse all the appointments the President had made so far.
Dim-Udebuani, anchored his prayers on the grounds “that the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a country for all the citizens, South-East inclusive.”
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He also contended as part of the grounds for the suit that the 2nd defendant (FCC) was a creation of constitution of the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria and that “the entire five states that make up South-East geo-political zone has no appointment yet.”
He contended that the North-East, North-West, North-Central, South-West and South-South had had representations in the appointments made so far.
In affidavit in support of the originating summons, the plaintiff said the President swore to defend and protect the nation’s constitution and that the Constitution ought to be obeyed by all appointments which he said were lopsided in the recent appointments that were made.
He argued that it would be “in the best interest of justice and promotion of rule of law that the lopsided appointments should be discouraged by granting all the prayers before the court.”
No date has been fixed for the hearing.

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