Sack: Court to Hear Umahi, Deputy, 16 Legislators’ Request for Stay of Execution March 21

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday fixed March 21, for hearing in the motion filed by Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy, Mr Kelechi Igwe, seeking to stop the execution of the judgment that sacked them from office last week.

Justice Ekwo had in a judgment delivered on March 8, ordered the applicants to vacate the elected offices they occupied owing to their defection to another party other than the one through which they came into office. Although the defendants had appealed the judgment, they however want the trial judge to order a halt to the execution of his judgment pending the determination of their appeal at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.

Meanwhile, the plaintiff/respondents, PDP, have filed a counter affidavit wherein they urged the court not to stay the execution of its judgment.Umahi and his deputy, in the motion on notice brought pursuant to order 26 rules 1 & 2 and order 32 rules 1 & 4, of the Federal High Court rules 2019, are praying the court for an order staying the execution of the orders made in the judgment of the court delivered on March 8, 2022.

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