An Abuja-based lawyer, Oladimeji Felix Ekengba, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs before a Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging their alleged unlawful interference in operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission .
In the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1458/2022, the plaintiff is praying for an order of the court restraining the defendants from further interfering with activities of the commission. The plaintiff, in the suit filed by himself, is seeking a declaration that by virtue of Section 4 of the 1999 Constitution and Section 2 of the NDDC Act, 2000, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, not being part of the persons mentioned in Section 2 of the NDDC Act, cannot interfere or usurp the powers of the board and management of the commission without an amendment to the NDDC Act by the National Assembly.
Ekengba also applied for a declaration that interference and intervention of the Niger Delta minister, the ministry and the permanent secretary in the affairs of the commission is contrary and in breach of Section 4 of the 1999 Constitution and Section 2 of the NDDC Act, and that any purported acts done by them are unconstitutional, illegal, null and void, and should be set aside.
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