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Umahi’s Response To Court Order “Executive Rascality” – NBA

  • A Federal High Court in Abuja ordered Umahi and his deputy to vacate office after it was approached by the PDP to nullify the governor’s defection to the APC

  • Umahi, while reacting, had said the judge lacks the power to remove him

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has berated Ebonyi State Governor Dave Umahi for refusing to obey a court order which has asked him to vacate office as governor of the state.

NBA President, Olumide Akpata, in a statement on Wednesday, described the governor’s response as “impunity of the highest order and executive rascality taken too far.”

Read also: Court Sacks Gov Umahi Over Defection To APC

Akpata said the NBA has absolutely no interest in the outcome of the case in question and will continue to stay away from partisan politics.

He added that the NBA “condemns without equivocation, Umahi’s unfortunate diatribe which, if it had emanated from an average litigant, would still have been regarded as shocking but coming from one who occupies the exalted office of a State Governor, is nothing short of a national embarrassment.”

Akpata said the governor is expected to have called for calm from his supporters and assured them that all legal and constitutional avenues would be explored to challenge the judgment but instead gave such a response.

The NBA, therefore, demand an immediate apology from the governor and a retraction of the comments he made against the person and Judgment of the Hon. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court.

Recall that a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered Umahi and his deputy to vacate office after it was approached by the PDP to nullify Umahi’s defection to the APC.

Justice Inyang Ekwo held that the votes cast during the 2019 governorship election belonged to the PDP and not the candidate.

The governor, while reacting, had said the judge lacks the power to remove him.

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