Reprieve For Ondo Chief Judge As Court Restrains Govt From Investigating Her |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

A Federal High sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, granted an interim order restraining the Attorney General of the Federation and Ondo state government, its servants or agents from investigating the State Chief Judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Akeredolu.

The order will subsist until the hearing and determination of the motion on notice which has been fixed for hearing on March 5, 2021.

Justice Akeredolu’s counsel, Jibrin Okutekpa, SAN, sought the Federal High Court’s order, praying it for an interim injunction restraining the defendants from investigating the Chief Judge of Ondo State for alleged Judicial misconduct said to have been gone viral on social media.

He, also, prayed the court to restrain the defendants from suspending and interfering with the functions of the Chief Judge of Ondo State as a judicial officer or removal from office on accounts of allegations of Judicial misconduct.

Justice Iyang Ekwo, who granted the reliefs of the plaintiff, adjourned the suit to March 5, 2021, for hearing.

The Respondents in the matter are the Attorney General of the Federation, National Judicial Council (NJC), Governor Of Ondo state, the Attorney General Of Ondo State, Ondo state house of Assembly and the Inspector General Of Police.

A video which went viral authored by a relation of the Chief Judge had accused her of using her office to detain him illegally over a family matter.

The Office of the State Attorney General had earlier exonerated the Chief Judge of the offence.