Federal Government has preferred to defer its reaction to Wednesday’s court order of mandamus calling on the National Assembly to begin impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed while fielding questions from State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting declared that it was premature to react since no information was officially made to government on the ruling as at the time.
Recall that a Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun state, presided over by Justice Maureen Onyetenu, had on Wednesday given the order in a motion filed before her by the Chairman, Nigeria Bar Association, Ilesa branch, Mr. Kanmi Ajibola; and a human rights activist, Mr. Suleiman Adeniyi.
According to Mohammed “I’m just hearing it from you. I will have to read it myself,” he said.
The judge was said to have given the orders the order on Wednesday following the suit filed by lawyer and a human rights activist, Kanmi Ajibola and Sulaiman Adeniyi, respectively,requesting the court to give permission to the National Assembly to begin impeachment processes against President Buhari.
