Bid by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to return to office suffered a setback
yesterday as the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, dismissed an
ex-parte motion seeking his immediate reinstatement. In a ruling yesterday,
Justice Gabriel Kolawole, said it would not be in the interest of justice to
grant such application without hearing from those dragged before the court by
the embattled CBN governor.
Sanusi was yesterday ordered to serve the relevant court
processes on President Goodluck Jonathan, Attorney-General of the Federation,
and Inspector-General of Police, who were all listed as defendants, even as the
substantive suit was adjourned to March 12 for hearing.
According to the judge, even where the tenure had lapsed,
the court could order the defendants to pay the plaintiff such remunerations
and allowances that ought to have accrued to him within the period of his
suspension “This is in any event that the suspension carries with it the
stoppage of the plaintiff’s remuneration and allowances,” the judge said.
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