Ex-gov Ambode heads for court to stop Assembly probe

Immediate-past Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has asked the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja to stop the state House of Assembly from probing him over the 820 mass transit buses purchased by his administration.

According to Punch news, The Lagos lawmakers had accused Ambode of purchasing the 820 buses in breach of budgetary provisions.

They issued a summons for the ex-governor to appear on Wednesday 30th oct 2019, before an ad hoc committee set up to probe the purchase of the buses.

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The Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, threatened that the House would issue a warrant for Ambode’s arrest should he continue to shun invitation by the lawmakers.

But on Tuesday, Ambode, through his lawyer, Mr Tayo Oyetibo (SAN), went before Justice Y.A. Akinsanya with an ex parte application, seeking an interim order of injunction against the lawmakers.

However, rather than hear the ex parte application, Justice Adesanya ordered Ambode to put the lawmakers on notice.

The judge directed service of originating processes, accompanying processes and all pending applications on the defendants/respondents.

Also joined as defendants are members of the ad hoc committee set up to probe the purchase of the bus – Fatai Mojeed, Gbolahan Yishawu, A.A. Yusuff, Yinka Ogundimu, Mojisola Meranda, M.L. Makinde, Kehinde Joseph, T.A. Adewale and O.S. Afinni.

In the suit filed on his behalf by Oyetibo, Ambode urged the court to restrain the lawmakers “from compelling the claimant, in any manner whatsoever, to appear before the defendants pursuant to the resolution passed by the defendants on August 27, 2019 or any other resolution passed in respect of the subject matter of this suit.”