A group, known as the Incorporated Trustees of Empowerment for Unemployed Youths Initiative, has asked the Federal High Court, in Abuja, to order for the withdrawal of the Certificate of Return issued to the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege.
In a suit filed through their Lawyer, Mr. Edward Omaga, the group also prayed the court for N500 million damages, to be slammed on the Clerk of the Senate, for accepting to declare Senator Omo-Agege as the Deputy Senate President, after his nomination and election on June 11, 2019.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/510/2020, the Plaintiff said that the Lawmaker representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, is not a competent, fit and proper person, considering the alleged conviction hanging on his neck by a court in Los Angeles, California, United States, US, on November 30, 1995.
In the judgment of the US court, the Senator was allegedly sentenced to jail and suspended from law practice for two years, for felony involving moral turpitude, forgery of cheques amounting to $890, with which he intended to defraud the Bank of America.
Apart from Omo-Agege, also joined as Defendants in the suit are the Clerk of the National Assembly, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
In the affidavit in support of the originating summons deposed to by Comrade Solomon Adodo, a Rights Activist, the group also prayed the court for an order of perpetual injunction, restraining Senator Omo-Agege from representing Delta Central Senatorial District, or such other similar Offices in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on the ground that he is not a competent, fit and proper person, considering the conviction hanging on his neck in the US court.