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| Mike Ozekhome |
The
Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a fine of forty million naira (N40M ) on Chief
Mike Ozekhome (SAN) for filing a ‘frivolous’ motion before the court in respect
of Imo Governorship tussle decided in 2019.
In
a ruling by Justice Tijani Abubakar, he ordered the Senior lawyer to personally
pay the N40M fine to the four respondents he dragged before the court.
Abubakar
held in the ruling that the request was strange, frivolous, baseless,
unwarranted, vexatious and irritating.
He
further held that the motion was a calculated design to demonize the Supreme
Court.
Ozekhome,
a Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN called to the Nigerian Bar over 42 years ago
was fined a huge amount for bringing a motion before the Apex Court seeking to
revalidate the suit that removed Emeka Ihedioha as Governor of Imo State in
2019.
Those
to be paid are the Action People’s Party, APP, Uche Nnadi, Uche Nwosu, and the
Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.
In
the motion considered to be frivolous by the court, Ozekhome had asked the
Court for a consequential order to compel INEC to issue a fresh Certificate of
Return to Ihedioha to enable him spend a four-year tenure as Imo Governor.
His
grouse was that the incumbent governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma unlawfully spent
the four years which Ihedioha ought to spend.
Among
others, Ozekhome in the motion claimed that the All Progressives Congress APC
had no candidate in the 2019 Imo Governorship election, hence, Uzodinmma ought
not to have been made governor on the platform of APC.
However,
the apex court dismissed the motion on the ground that it has no jurisdiction
to entertain such a motion.
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