JUSTICE Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed October 31, to deliver a ruling as well as judgement in a suit seeking the sack of the Chairman of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chiedu Ebie, over the alleged wrongful appointment.
Justice Abdulmalik fixed the date shortly after parties in the suit adopted their written addresses as their arguments for and against the originating summons.
Some Niger Delta communities had sued President Bola Tinubu, for allegedly violating the NDDC Act by appointing Ebie as chairman of the commission’s board.
The plaintiffs from Bayelsa and Delta states communities had told the court that Ebie was not qualified to occupy the seat as board chairman as he was not from the oil-producing area.
At the day’s proceedings, plaintiffs through their lawyer, urged the court to dismiss the preliminary objection filed by President Tinubu and the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, adding that the court should dismiss the entire case of all the respondents for lacking in merit.
After listening to all parties, Justice Abdulmalik announced that ruling in the preliminary objection to the suit as well as her judgement in the main suit would be delivered on October 31, this year.
