Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja,
yesterday, refused to grant a fresh ex-parte application seeking to restrain
Mr. Aminu Tambuwal from further acting as the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
The application was filed before the court by a member of
the House House of Representatives, Mr. Abiodun Akinlade.
The applicant, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, representing Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency of Ogun State in the
House, had in his application, prayed the court to stop Tambuwal from parading
himself as the Speaker, pending the determination of the suit challenging his
continued stay in office.
Aside the ex-parte application that was declined by the
court yesterday, Akinlade is in his substantive suit, seeking a “judicial
interpretation” of an earlier judgment delivered by Justice Evoh Chukwu of the
same Federal High Court in Abuja, where the court held that there was no
division in the PDP.
