Senate forgery: Ekweremadu sacks Judge from case as Justice Ademola quits for Evoh Chukwu as CJ reassigns case

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court in Abuja has washed his hands off from a legal action instituted by five senators to challenge the election of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President and Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President respectively.

His action followed the Chief Justice of Nigeria’s (CJN) appointment of Justice Evoh Chukwu also of the Federal High Court Abuja as a new adjudicator of the matter.
The five senators, Abu Ibrahim, Kabir Garba Marafa, Robert Ajayi Boroffice, Bareehu Olugbenga Ashafa and Suleiman Othman Hunkuyu had sued the Senate President and his Deputy claiming that the Senate Standing Rule used in their election was amended without due process.

In their suit filed by their lawyer, Chief Mamman Mike Osuman (SAN), they asked the Federal High Court to set aside the election for being a nullity having allegedly violated the 2011 standing rule inherited in 2015.

The case was with¬drawn from Justice Ademola by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta following a petition from the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, against Justice Ademola.
The suit had been slated for judgment by Justice Ademola who had taken the final address of counsel in the suit.
Ekweremadu had petitioned Justice Ademola claiming that he would not receive justice from him on the strength of his relationship with a power bloc in Lagos whom he alleged is biased and deeply interested in the case.
In the petition to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Mahmood Mohammed, Senator Ekweremadu claimed that the wife of Justice Ademola Mrs Tolulope was hurriedly appointed the Head of Service by Lagos State Government as part of alleged measure to make Justice Ademola compromise in the case before him.
The Deputy Senate President insisted that the external influence from Lagos will rob him of justice if Justice Ademola was allowed to make pro-nouncement in the matter and demanded that the CJN disqualify Justice Ademola from going ahead with the case.