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PLATEAU STATE & ANOR.
V.
AG FEDERATION & ANOR.

(2006) JELR 10194 (SC)

Supreme Court 20 Jan 2006 Nigeria
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- The plaintiffs are challenging the suspension of the Executive Governor and House of Assembly of Plateau State by the President of Nigeria, arguing that it is a violation of the Constitution. - The defendants argue that the suspension was

Case Details

Suit Number:SC.113/2004
Judges:MUHAMMADU LAWAL UWAIS, JSC IDRIS LEGBO KUTIGI, JSC AKINTOLA OLUFEMI EJIWUNMI, JSC NIKI TOBI, JSC DAHIRU MUSDAPHER, JSC IGNATIUS CHUKWUDI PATS-ACHOLONU, JSC GEORGE ADESOLA OGUNTADE, JSC
Counsel:Prof. B. Nwabueze, SAN., (with him, L. T. Sule and Chief Ziggy Azike) For Appellant AND Seeni Okunloye, SAN., (with him, B. J. Akomolafe, Mrs. Remi Awe Osho, Dotun Sowemimo and Mrs. N. O. Owookere) Tochi Nwogu and Miss Olubunmi Ope-Agbe For Respondent
Other Citations:Plateau State v. Attorney General of the Federation (2006) 3 NWLR (Pt.968) 346

I. L. KUTIGI, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The plaintiffs' Amended Originating Summons which was taken out by their counsel, Professor B. O. Nwabueze, SAN, Legal Practitioner, is couched in the following terms-

ISSUES FOR DETERMINATION

ISSUE A:

Whether the suspension by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of the Office of the Executive Governor...and the House of Assembly of Plateau State and the proclamation, published in the Federal Government Gazette as Statutory Instrument No. 4 of 2004, by which the suspension was effected, are not a violation of the provisions of Sections 176 and 90 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 which establish those organs for the government of the State.

ISSUE B:

Whether the said Constitution, either expressly or by implication of its provisions, authorizes the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by proclamation published in the Federal Government Gazette as Statutory Instrument No. 4 of 2004, to s…

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