From Ibrahim Sidi Muh’d, Gusau
The Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Barrister Mahdi Aliyu has kicked against continued moves by the Zamfara State House of Assembly for his impeachment and other proceedings against him for being a PDP member.
Mahdi, who disclosed this in a press conference in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital yesterday, stressed that, “I am constrained to draw the attention of the public on this ugly situation in the matter with the hope that well-meaning citizens and people of goodwill, will call the House of Assembly of Zamfara State to order and impress on them to obey the subsisting order of the court and respect the judicial process to exercise restraint and await the outcome.
“You will recall that the Federal High Court has granted an order directing the maintenance of the status quo ante on the 19th day of July 2021. The Court Order was served on the Chief Judge of Zamfara State, Zamfara State House of Assembly, and the Governor of Zamfara State.
“Despite the foregoing state of affairs, the Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly and the House of Assembly have now embarked on steps and actions, to over-reach the pending suit, disobey the order of the court and render the effect of the suit nugatory by scheduling a sitting to proceed with impeachment proceedings on Thursday 29th July, 2021, against me, the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State.
“Notwithstanding the service of the said Court Order, Mr Emmanuel C. Ukala SAN and Distinguished Life Bencher wrote a letter to the Honourable Speaker of the Zamfara State House of Assembly drawing the attention of the Speaker and the House of Assembly to the Court Order and the Suit no. FHC/ABJ/CS/650/2021.
Mahdi further said, he was of the honest view that the action will be improper, indecorous, inappropriate and unlawful as it constitutes disobedience to court order and will be tantamount to a flagrant breach of the law as enunciated in a host of Supreme Court Cases such as cases of Vaswani v Savallakh [1972] (PART 2) ALL NLR 438 and Ojukwu v Governor of Lagos State [1983] 2 NWLR (PART 10) 106 and Mohammed v. Olawunmi [1993] 4 NWLR (PART 287) 254.
