A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted indefinite adjournment in the suit challenging the educational qualification of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The adjournment granted by Justice Adeniyi Ademola is to subsist pending the determination of an appeal filed by the defendants in the case – President Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The judge adjourned the suit following an application by lawyer to the defendants, Kola Awodein (SAN), that the case be adjourned to enable the defendants prosecute their appeal against the court’s earlier ruling upholding the service of the originating processes on the President.
The defendants also filed an application for a stay of proceedings pending appeal and an affidavit to prove that the Court of Appeal had entered the appeal.
The affidavit was served on both the plaintiff, Nnamdi Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe and the court on Thursday.
Nwokocha-Ahaaiwe opposed the application for stay of proceedings on the ground that having been served with the said affidavit right inside the court while the proceedings was on, he would require time to react to it.
He later elected to leave the issue to “the discretion of the court” in order to save time.
source: nigerianeye
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