A Federal High Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Tuesday refused to hear an interlocutory application seeking to stop the Labour Party from recalling Mr. Ifedayo Abegunde from the House of Representatives.
Ifedayo, representing Akure South and North Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, defected from the LP to the Action Congress of Nigeria, last year.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Grace Okeke, while refusing Abegunde’s application, said the hearing of the substantive suit would begin on April 26, 2012.
This development was sequel to a consensus between Abegunde’s counsel, Mr. Kola Olawoye, and the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, who led the Director of Civil Litigation, Mr. Rotimi Olamide, for the defendants on how to fast track adjudication of the case.
The two sides agreed that instead of wasting the time of the court and dissipating energy on the application for interlocutory injunction, it was better to allow the court treat the substantive matter.
Okeke, on her part, agreed with the decision of the counsel for the litigants not to continue to waste precious time on pursuing the application on interlocutory injunction.
Abegunde had while defecting to the ACN, cited the factionalisation of the party as the reason for the defection.
The LP however denied any split in its rank and proceeded to initiate a recall move against the two-term legislator by collecting signatures of registered voters in the constituency which he represents with a view to recalling him from the National Assembly.
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