A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, Nkemakolam Ukandu, has known as on a presiding decide Hon. Justice Liman Suleiman to recuse himself in a celebration matter on grounds of manifest bias on the a part of the decide towards him.
The occasion’s Nationwide Welfare Secretary in a movement on discover dated and filed on Thursday on the Federal Excessive Court docket in Go well with No: FHC/ABJ/CS/1637/2025, between Hon. Leke Joseph Abejide Vs. ADC, accused Hon. Justice Liman Suleiman of listening to and granting an utility with out service of listening to discover and the applying for modification on Ukandu’s Counsel, which robbed the Choose of the jurisdiction to listen to and entertain the applying.
In a-26 paragraph affidavit deposed to by himself, Ukandu accused Hon. Justice Liman Suleiman of giving rulings in favour of Wike’s curiosity who’s bent on destroying all opposition political events in Nigeria.
He then prayed Justice Suleiman to recuse himself from listening to the go well with and for the court docket to grant an order returning the case file in respect of the go well with to the Chief Choose of the Federal Excessive Court docket for reassignment to a different Court docket.
Hon. Leke Abejide, a member of the Home of Representatives, it might be recalled filed a go well with difficult the way through which Senator David Mark and others took over the management of the African Democratic Congress. Though Abejide had since been expelled from the occasion for his anti-party actions, together with brazenly canvassing for President Tinubu’s second time period, he has continued to problem the management of the occasion in court docket, together with Hon. Nkem Ukandu, who’s now the Nationwide Welfare Secretary of the occasion.