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Yesterday, a battle of wits was fought in Taraba state, as the state House of Assembly cleared a list of prospective commissioners sent to it by the acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar while the the state High Court was restraining the speaker and the lawmakers from taking any step towards screening and confirming them.
According to THIS DAY LIVE, in a bid to outsmart the court, the lawmakers started sitting earlier than usual and before the court could give its ruling, they had approved the list of commissioners. The assembly, which normally begins sitting by 10.a.m, did so yesterday much earlier and by the time the injunction was brought to the assembly, the screening had already been concluded.
The court made the order following an ex-parte application filed on behalf of the recuperating governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, by a team of lawyers led by Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), seeking an interim injunction to restrain the assembly from tampering with the subject matter of the dispute pending at the Court of Appeal.
Suntai had gone to court seeking a restoration of his powers as governor after returning from a protracted medical sojourn abroad following his involvement in a plane crash in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, last year.But the lawmakers refused to let him assume office, causing him to file an action in court.
Reacting to the injunction on the assembly, the speaker denied knowledge of it, saying neither him nor the assembly has been served.
But former Deputy Speaker, Hon. Abel Peter Diah, who was seen in the assembly but refrained from attending the sitting, told journalists that the injunction was served on the assembly restraining it from screening the nominees and held that it was illegal for the lawmakers to have gone ahead to do so.
According to THIS DAY LIVE, in a bid to outsmart the court, the lawmakers started sitting earlier than usual and before the court could give its ruling, they had approved the list of commissioners. The assembly, which normally begins sitting by 10.a.m, did so yesterday much earlier and by the time the injunction was brought to the assembly, the screening had already been concluded.
The court made the order following an ex-parte application filed on behalf of the recuperating governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, by a team of lawyers led by Dr. Alex Izinyon (SAN), seeking an interim injunction to restrain the assembly from tampering with the subject matter of the dispute pending at the Court of Appeal.
Suntai had gone to court seeking a restoration of his powers as governor after returning from a protracted medical sojourn abroad following his involvement in a plane crash in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, last year.But the lawmakers refused to let him assume office, causing him to file an action in court.
Reacting to the injunction on the assembly, the speaker denied knowledge of it, saying neither him nor the assembly has been served.
But former Deputy Speaker, Hon. Abel Peter Diah, who was seen in the assembly but refrained from attending the sitting, told journalists that the injunction was served on the assembly restraining it from screening the nominees and held that it was illegal for the lawmakers to have gone ahead to do so.