In a suit filed at the Federal High Court in Lokoja the Koji state capital, the lawyers described President BUHARI’s refusal to appoint a replacement for the late OCHOLI as a breach of the constitution.
They prayed the court to declare that BUHARi’s duty to appoint a Kogi state minister is mandatory.
They also asked the court to order the President and the Attorney-General of the Federation ABUBAKAR MALAMI to, within thirty days of service answer questions on the legal and constitutional effect of the president’s refusal to appoint a minister from Kogi state.
The suit is also asking that court to determine whether the failure of the President to appoint a substantive minister from Kogi state into the Federal Executive Council is not a flagrant and violent breach of the principal of equality and justice upon which the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended is founded.
