President
Goodluck Jonathan has challenged the power of the Abuja Division of the
Federal High Court to consider a suit seeking to reverse the suspension
of governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mallam Sanusi Lamido
Sanusi.
In
a preliminary objection filed against the suit, President Jonathan
maintained that the ousted CBN governor ought to have taken his case to
the National Industrial Court (NIC), stating that in line with section
254 (c) (1a) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, only the industrial
court had the statutory powers to interfere in any dispute between an
employer and his employee.
Similarly,
the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr
Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) and the Inspector General of Police, Mr
Mohammed Abubakar, who were both joined in the suit by Sanusi as 2nd and
3rd defendants, urged the high court to strike it out for want of
jurisdiction.
Mallam
Sanusi, through his lawyer, Dr. Kola Awodehin (SAN) had insisted that
there was never a time employer/employee relationship existed between
him and President Jonathan, that he was never an employee of the Federal
Government.
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