2027 Election: Jonathan, AGF Ask Court To Dismiss Lawyer’s Motion Seeking Judge’s Recusal

The senior lawyer described the application as frivolous, baseless, and founded on gross misrepresentation.

Uche urged the court to discountenance the application, describing it as a gross abuse of the court process, and prayed the court to dismiss it with substantial costs and proceed with the case.

Similarly, Fagbemi, who was represented by Maimuna Lami-Shiru, Director of Civil Litigation and Public Law at the Federal Ministry of Justice, also urged the judge to dismiss the motion.

Lami-Shiru submitted that a judge may recuse himself from a case if he believes that his continued involvement could affect the impartial determination of the matter.

However, she argued that the motion before the court constituted an abuse of court process.

She urged the court to dismiss the plaintiff’s motion as baseless, unmeritorious, and unsupported by the relevant provisions of the law.

According to the lawyer, “He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.”

Lami-Shiru also asked the court to award ₦2 million in costs in favour of the ministry.

In the substantive suit filed by the plaintiff, Jonathan and Fagbemi likewise urged the court to dismiss the case with substantial costs.

After hearing arguments from counsel to the plaintiff and the defendants, Justice Lifu adjourned the matter until May 26 for judgment.