JIME VS APC: HON MOVES TO SUPREME COURT

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JIME VS APC: HON MOVES TO SUPREME COURT


Lead Counsel to the Benue State Governor-elect, Chief Dr Samuel Ortom, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, Sebastian
Hon, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has disclosed that he would
challenge the Appeal Court's decision today to strike out his appeal
against the ruling of an Abuja Federal High Court at the Supreme Court.
He had appealed the ruling of the Abuja Court Presided over by Justice
Evoh Chukwu which granted the motion brought before it by Rt. Hon
Emmanuel Jime, and Senator JKN Waku to discontinue proceedings against
Senator George Akume and Comrade Abba Yaro, in the case they instituted
challenging the nomination of Chief Dr Ortom as governorship candidate. 

According to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, although the Appeal
Court's decision did not affect the substance of the case he felt
strongly that the court erred hence he would seek redress at the highest
court in the land.
Still Hon said there was no cause for alarm.
When the case came up in court about two weeks ago the plaintiffs'
lawyer, Sunday Ameh, also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, told the
court that his clients wished to settle the matter out of court and
promised to report back to the court on April 30, 2015.
His request was granted.
On the eve of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections on April
11th, there was an announcement on Harvest FM Makurdi that Rt Hon Jime
and Senator Waku had withdrawn the case following the intervention of
the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari.
Before this the case
witnessed dramatic twists as two plaintiffs, Chief Akange Audu, and
Chief Mike Iordye declared in court that their signatures had been
forged in the document which purported that they had adopted Rt Hon Jime
as the consensus candidate.
Chief Iordye also requested the Court's
permission to withdraw from the case and was obliged while Chief Audu
asked to be joined as a party which was also granted.
One of the
plaintiffs, Professor Steve Ugbah became the Director General of the
Ortom/Abounu Governorship Campaign Organization and successfully
prosecuted the campaign.
Close observers also note that if the case
persisted Rt. Hon Jime may be prosecuted for forgery of the signatures
of Chiefs Audu and Iordye attributing the delay in his prosecution for
the criminal acts to Chief Dr Ortom’s magnanimity.

Signed :
Tahav Agerzua,
Media Adviser to
Benue State Governor-elect.
Tuesday, 28th April, 2015.