{"id":63966,"date":"2018-11-23T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63966"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:03:14","slug":"rivers-2019-court-dismisses-suit-seeking-disqualification-of-governor-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=63966","title":{"rendered":"Rivers 2019: Court dismisses suit seeking disqualification of Governor Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a suit filed by Achinike Godwin William-Wobodo, asking the court to disqualify the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, from contesting the 2019 Governorship Election on account of age declaration.<\/p>\n

William-Wobodo applied to discontinue the suit after counsels to Governor Wike challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear the suit.<\/p>\n

Ruling on Suit Number FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/1020\/2018, filed by the Rivers APC chieftain, Justice I.E. Ekwo ordered that the suit be discontinued as was prayed for by the plaintiff.<\/p>\n

William-Wobodo, said to be an aide of the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, had sued Governor Wike and joined the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as co-defendant.<\/p>\n

When the matter came up in court, William-Wobodo said: \u201cOrdinarily this matter is stated for mention today. But counsel on the other side has filed a motion challenging the jurisdiction of the court. However, I intend to withdraw this suit just like I informed the learned SAN on the other side. I made that decision over the weekend and my colleague in chamber is trying to file a notice of discontinuance so that we can bring it to the Court formally. But if the Court is minded, we intend to discontinue this application.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Justice Ekwo ordered: \u201cAfter hearing William-Wobodo Esq plaintiff applied in person to discontinue the suit against the defendants and the counsels of the defendants not opposing the application but applying for a cost of N1,000,000 and the court having granted the application, it is hereby ordered as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat the suit is hereby dismissed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat a cost of N50,000 is hereby awarded for the second defendant (Nyesom Ezenwo Wike) against the plaintiff.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rivers State Governor, Wike was duly nominated to fly the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ) in the 2019 general election in Rivers State at a Governorship Primary held on September 30, 2018 at the Sharks Stadium in Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n

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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has dismissed a suit filed by Achinike Godwin William-Wobodo, asking the court to disqualify the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, from contesting the 2019 Governorship Election on account of age declaration. William-Wobodo applied to discontinue the suit after counsels to Governor Wike challenged the jurisdiction of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[4149,5091],"class_list":["post-63966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-2019-election","tag-nyesom-wike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}