The Federal High Court, Abuja,on Friday, ordered the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University of Abuja, Prof. Rasheed Na’Allah, to appear before it on June 13 on why the planned inauguration of the newly elected Internal Governing Council Members of the institution should not be stopped.
Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order, in a ruling, shortly after the plaintiffs’ counsel, Maxwell Opara, moved an ex-parte motion to that effect.
The plaintiffs in the suit, Prof. Saint Gbilekaa, Prof. Edmund Nwanna, Prof. Sunday Ejaro, Prof. Kasim Umar, Prof. Wesley Nafarnda and Dr Uju Patrick, had filed the motion ex-parte marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/683/2024.
The six aggrieved senior lecturers had sued the VC, Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and National Universities Commission (NUC) as 1st to 4th defendants respectively.
In the motion dated and filed June 5 through their lawyer, Opara, they sought seven reliefs, which include an order of interim injunction directing all parties to maintain status quo pending the determination of the motion on notice.
They also sought an order of interim injunction restraining the 1st defendant (VC) and others from conducting any inauguration of the newly elected internal council members of the university pending the determination of the motion on notice.
The plaintiffs also sought an interim injunction stopping any person or group of persons newly elected as members of the Internal Governing Council by the VC in an election conducted on May 28 from parading themselves as members of the council pending the determination of the motion on notice.
They prayed the court to make an interim order restraining Na’Allah from setting up any administrative panel of inquiry or disciplinary committee for the purpose of sanctioning, discipline, or questioning the six of them in suit
Giving six grounds why the motion should be granted, they argued that the case was duly filed on May 22 and copies of all the processes duly served on Na’Allah by the plaintiffs.
They said despite the pendency of the suit in court, Na’Allah conducted “the purported election of new Governing Council on May 28, 2024.”
Justice Ekwo then ordered the plaintiffs to put the defendants on notice of the motion ex-parte within three days of the order and subsequently adjourned the matter until June 13 for defendants to show cause.
Garry Ochigbo, Edited By Grace Namiji
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