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.