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  • Edo Tribunal to begin hearing on Nov 14

    The reconstituted Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal will begin hearing in the petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the July 14 election, Maj.-Gen. Charles Airhiavbere, on November 14.

    Airhiavbere is challenging Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s victory in the election.

    The Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Muazu Pidinga, gave the date yesterday at the tribunal’s inaugural sitting in Benin, the state capital.

    Other members of the tribunal are Justices Abubakar Kutigi and A. Ajileye.

    Justice Pidinga urged counsel to cooperate with the panel, so that the ruling can be delivered before the 90 days stipulated in the Constitution expires.

    He said the petitioner has 14 days to conclude his case.

     

     

  • Court grants operators accelerated hearing over ban

    A Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, yesterday granted accelerated hearing to a suit filed by commercial motorcycle operators against the Lagos State Government for banning their operations on some federal highways in the state.

    Justice Aishat Opesanwo who granted the order, however, dismissed an application for interlocutory injunction filed by the claimants. They were praying the court to restrain the government from implementing the new Lagos State Traffic Law.

    The suit was filed by Mr. Bamidele Aturu on behalf of the commercial motorcycle operators under the aegis of the All Nigerians Autobike Commercial Owners and Workers Association (ANACOWA).

    Joined in the suit as defendants are: the Lagos State Government, House of Assembly and the Attorney-General, Mr Ade Ipaye.

    When the matter was mentioned yesterday, Aturu told the court that they were withdrawing their application against the government for the court to hear the substantive suit in an accelerated manner.

    “We believe that there is a need for the court to urgently deal with this matter because it is in the interest of the generality of the populace. Many of them have been suffering from this draconian action of the state government which restricted the motorcyclists from operating on federal high ways. We are therefore, asking the court to strike out the application and grant us an accelerated hearing of the substantive suit,” he said.

    Mr. Ipaye, who is the third defendant and counsel to the government, informed the court that the law was already in force.

    “It was in reaction to its enforcement that the claimants on Monday went on the rampage in Lagos. The law in respect of which the state was sued had been in force since August 2. My Lord, please take judicial notice that the law came into effect on August 2,” he said.