A Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to dismiss a suit by former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Micheal Aondoakaa seeking a review of Supreme Court judgment which barred him from holding public office for life.
In a preliminary objection filed by Uwemedimo Nwoko, Counsel for former House of Representatives member, Emmanuel Obot claimed that Aondoakaa’s new suit is strange to law as he asked the court to set aside the judgment of the Supreme Court as being sought by the former AGF.
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Nwoko therefore asked the high court to decline the invitation, refuse to review the apex court judgment and dismiss the suit.
The former Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa had in the suit, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to set aside a Supreme Court judgment which banned him from holding public office for life on December 10, 2021.
Apart from being banned from public office holding for life due to professional misconduct and abuse of office, Aondoakaa was also ordered to pay a sum of N2M to Emmanuel Obot.
The judgement came following series of letters he wrote asking some government’s agencies not to obey a court judgment that declared Emmanuel Obot as a duly elected House of Representatives member for Akwa Ibom state.
Aondoakaa also wrote a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC Professor Maurice Iwu not to issue Certificate of Return to Obot as well as Court of Appeal President, not to set up a Tribunal Panel on the election dispute in Akwa Ibom State.
However, in a dramatic turn, the embattled Aondoakaa filed a fresh suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja praying it to review and set aside the judgment of the Supreme Court against him.
The grouse of the former Justice Minister is that the judgment against him was obtained by fraud by Obot.
Aondoakaa claimed that two of the averments in the affidavit in support of the suit by Obot which led to the apex court action against him were not correct and should be used to void the Supreme Court decision against him.
Meanwhile, Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed has fixed May 12 for hearing of objection against Aondoakaa’s new suit.
Editor: Omor Bazuaye
