By Ayodele Oni
A High Court, sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital has declined jurisdiction in the case filed by the Deputy Governor of the State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, seeking to stop his impeachment by the State House of Assembly.
The Court, on Tuesday, struck out the suit “to avoid conflicting verdict between Ondo High Court and Federal High Court.”
The embattled Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa had earlier got an injunction from the Federal High Court, Abuja to restrain the State House of Assembly from impeaching him.
In its ruling delivered by Justice O. Akintan-Osadebay, the Court declined jurisdiction to avoid conflicting verdict between Ondo High Court and Abuja Federal High Court.
The Judge ruled that it was a gross abuse of Court process to engage in “forum shopping, by instituting same case in Akure and Abuja High Court.”
It will be recalled that Aiyedatiwa had approached the Court in a suit delineated AK/348/2023 filed on September 25, 2023, to stop the House of Assembly from impeaching him.
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