The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed April 16 to deliver judgement in the suit that is challenging the legality of the three-month tenure extension President Muhammadu Buhari granted to the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed adjourned the matter for judgement, after all the parties adopted their final briefs of argument.
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.
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.
Mr. E. V. 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.
He urged the court to uphold the preliminary objection the 1st, 3rd and 4th Defendants raised against the suit.
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.
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