{"id":15299,"date":"2021-03-30T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=15299"},"modified":"2021-03-30T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:40:53","slug":"court-fixes-april-16-for-judgement-in-suit-challenging-igps-tenure-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/30\/court-fixes-april-16-for-judgement-in-suit-challenging-igps-tenure-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Court fixes April 16 for judgement in suit challenging IGP\u2019s tenure extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed April 16 to deliver judgement in the suit challenging the legality of the three-month tenure extension President Muhammadu Buhari granted to the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ahmed Mohammed adjourned the matter for judgement, after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.<\/p>\n<p>Cited as Defendants in the suit marked FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/106\/2021, which was brought before the court by a constitutional lawyer, Mr. Maxwell Opara, are President Buhari, IGP Adamu, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, and the Nigeria Police Council.<\/p>\n<p>While the Plaintiff, through his lawyer, Mr. Ugochukwu Ezekiel, urged the court to declare the continued stay of Adamu as IGP, as illegal and unconstitutional, the Defendants, prayed the court to dismiss the suit for want of merit.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. E. 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Elodimuo who represented President Buhari, the AGF and the Nigeria Police Council, argued that the decision to retain Adamu as the IGP was not in breach of either the 1999 Constitution, as amended, or the Police Act.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the court to uphold the preliminary objection the 1st, 3rd and 4th Defendants raised against the suit.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, President Buhari, who is the 1st Defendant, said he retained Adamu in office as the IGP, in exercise of the executive power that was conferred on him by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Constitution empowered him to appoint a serving Police officer as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/21\/igp-orders-probe-into-assassination-attempt-on-ortom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IGP<\/a>, in consultation with Police Council, stressing that neither the Council nor the Police Service Commission, have disclosed that Adamu is no longer a serving police officer.<\/p>\n<p>In a five-paragraphed counter-affidavit he jointly filed with the AGF, President Buhari, described the case of Plaintiff as \u201cfrivolous, unmeritorious and undeserving of the court\u2019s attention\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, urged the court to dismiss it \u201cwith heavy cost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Adamu\u2019s lawyer, Dr. Alex Iziyon, SAN, while urging the court to dismiss the suit, argued that going by section 136 of the Nigerian Police Act, his client, could remain in office as the IGP till 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP, who attained the maximum 35 years in service on February 1, but got a three-month extension of his tenure by President Buhari on February 3, argued that his tenure never elapsed.<\/p>\n<p>He said the new Nigeria Police Act gave him a four-year tenure which would only expire in either 2023 or 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, his tenure will lapse in 2023 if counted from 2019 when he was appointed as the IGP, or 2024, if counted from 2020 when the new Nigeria Police Act came into force.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, prayed the court to dismiss the suit.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Opara had in his suit, contended that by virtue of section 215 of the Nigerian Constitution and section 7 of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020, Mr Adamu could not validly continue to function as the IGP having retired as a member of the Nigeria Police Force as from midnight of February 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff, among other things, prayed the court to restrain Adamu from exercising any form of command or control over the Nigeria Police Force.<\/p>\n<p>He equally sought an order of court mandating President Buhari and the Police Council to immediately appoint a new IGP, in line with the provisions of section 7 of the Nigeria Police Act.<\/p>\n<p>More so, the Plaintiff asked for, a declaration that by the combined effect of the provisions of section 215 and 216 of the 1999 constitution and section 7 of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020, the 2nd Defendant (Adamu), cannot lawfully continue to function as the Inspector-General of Police not being a serving member of the Nigeria Police Force as from midnight of February 1, 2021, and therefore all actions taking thereafter are illegal, null and void and constitute a breach of the constitution and the Police Act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As well as, \u201cDeclaration that the failure of the 1st (Buhari) and the 4th (Police Council) Defendants to appoint an Inspector-General of Police as at February 1, 2021, constitutes an abdication of their duties under section 215 of the 1999 constitution and section 7 of the Police Act\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed April 16 to deliver judgement in the suit challenging the legality of the three-month tenure extension President Muhammadu Buhari granted to the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu. 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