A lawsuit seeking to restrain Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) has hit the rock following a federal court ruling in Abuja on Tuesday.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the ruling, following a motion ex parte filed by Maxwell Opara, a legal practitioner, and argued by his lawyer, Ugochukwu Ezekiel.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Opara had sued President Muhammadu Buhari, IGP Adamu, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice as first to fourth defendants.
Opara, in the motion dated February 10 and filed on February 11, had prayed the court for an order of interim injunction, restraining Adamu from parading himself as IGP, pending the determination of the matter and for an abridgement of time within which the defendants should respond to the application.
When the case was mentioned, the applicant’s lawyer, Ezekiel, told the court that the first, third and fourth defendants were duly served with the originating processes and the hearing notices for the day’s sitting.
“They were equally aware of today’s sitting because they were served with hearing notice,” he said.
Ezekiel informed the court that he had a motion ex parte dated February 10 and filed on February 11.
The lawyer said the motion sought an order to restrain Adamu from further parading himself as IGP and for the court to abridge the time within which the defendants would file their processes.
He said he was in court in protest because the defendants had 30 days within which to file their responses in respect to the main suit.
The lawyer said he received the hearing notice two days earlier.