Johnson Oghuma, the House of Representatives member for Etsako Federal Constituency will not return to the National Assembly in 2023. The lawmaker lost at
Adibe Emenyonu in Benin-city
Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the state All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday engaged in war of words over compliance by the state government with a court ruling reinstating the suspended Chairman of the Etsako East Local Government Area, Hon Aremiyau Momoh, by the state High Court.
Justice Daniel Okungbowa of the state High Court had in a judgment delivered last week, declared as illegal, null and void the suspension of the council chairman by the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki.
In a letter written by the state Caretaker Committee of APC and signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Col. David Imuse and Lawrence Okah respectively, to the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo, APC accused the state governor of allegedly obstructing the implementation of the court judgment, which they said is declarative.
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Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City
A High Court in Benin, capital of Edo State has nullified what it termed the unlawful removal of Estako East Local Government Chairman, Hon. Aremiyau Momoh.
Momoh was suspended and subsequently removed by Governor Godwin Obaseki on allegation of misappropriation of funds as well as his alignment with the removed National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomole.
However, Momoh approached a state High Court in a suit B/205/2019.
The trial Judge, Justice D. I. Okungbowa, declared that the valid and de jure elected Chairman of Etsako East Local Government Area Council of Edo State by Edo State High Court No 4, Benin City under Hon . Justice D.I. Okungbowa in suit no B/205/2019.