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All is now set for a Federal High Court, Abuja to adopt the final written addresses in a suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to remove Bello Matawalle as Governor of Zamfara State.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo on Thursday fixed April 8 for the adoption of final written addresses in the suit against Matawalle and others, after parties in the suit confirmed joining issues with one another.
The PDP is praying the court for an order to remove Matawalle as Governor of Zamfar over his defection from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party also asked the court to sack the Senators, House of Representatives members and State House of Assembly’s members, who decamped alongside the Governor to APC.
Counsel for the PDP (plaintiff), Emmanuel Ukala, SAN, confirmed that all his processes had been filed and served on all the defendants. Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, who is the lawyer to the Governor and 34 others, also spoke in the same vein.
Lawyers to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC, which are defendants in the suit informed that they had also joined issues in the matter.
Justice Ekwo said that with the completion of the exchange of processes by parties, the stage was set for a definite hearing of all pending motions along with the substantive matter.
He announced that all processes would be adopted on April 8 after which a date for judgment would be fixed. The judge warned that any counsel who failed to be in court on the adjourned date would have his papers deemed adopted.