Tambuwal Alleges Bia-Heads to High Court

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal,is seeking protection by petitioning the  Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in a fresh suit which was against him by a member of the House, Mr. Abidun Akinlade.

The suit, NO. FHC/ABJ/CS/871/2014, has Tambuwal, the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Federal Government as respondents.


According to Tambuwal, the suit was assigned to Justice E.S.J. Chukwu of Court 8.

In the suit, Akinlade, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, is seeking a “judicial interpretation” of an earlier judgment of the same court, where it held that there was no division in the PDP.

The aim of the fresh suit is to justify the PDP’s stance that the defection of Tambuwal from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress on October 28 was “illegal” and in breach of Section 68(1)(g) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).