By Umar Bayo Abdulwahab
Ilorin
A suspended Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker in the Kwara state House of Assembly, Hon. Iliasu Ibrahim, has accused the leadership of the House of disobeying court order which ruled that he should resume from his suspension.
Ibrahim made the accusation following the action of security men attached to the Kwara state House of Assembly who prevented him from entering the house on Tuesday.
Ibrahim representing Ipaye/Malete/Olooru constituency in the House is one of the two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers in the 24-member assembly.
He was suspended in 2012 and 2013. However, he challenged his suspension at a state High Court in Ilorin where the court in a June 13, 2014 judgement declared his suspension as null and void and ordered his reinstatement as well as payment of all his entitlements within the time he was on suspension.
But the House through its solicitors, Saka Isau and Co., filed an appeal for the stay of execution of the judgement.
But on March 11, 2015, the Court of Appeal Ilorin division in a unanimous verdict by the three-man panel dismissed the motion, clearing the way for him to resume.
Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam who read the lead judgement obtained by our correspondent yesterday, said the applicants (the house and its leadership) have failed to prove why the stay of execution should be granted.
“In my humble opinion, therefore, the applicants have failed to show the untold hardship they will suffer which could be avoided without damage to the respondent by the grant of a stay.
“They have failed to satisfy the court by showing exceptional circumstances to warrant the preservation of the res and maintenance of status quo and; a resultant grant of a stay of execution of the part of the judgement that is executory or injunction restraining the respondent from giving effect to the judgement of the High Court of Kwara state, in suit No: KWS/41/2014, delivered on June 13, 2014.”
