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Nigeria - An activist-lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) board without seeking the opinion of the senate.
Adegboruwa has filed a suit saying the August 19 appointments were all blatant violation of the relevant statute setting up the agency.
Adegboruwa referred to Section 10(1) (C) of the AMCON Act 2010 which provides that the board, consisting of three executive directors nominated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in consultation with the Minister of Finance, must be appointed subject to Senate confirmation. He is however seeking a declaration that the President cannot appoint anyone as Executive Director of AMCON without complying with Section 10(1)C of the AMCON Act 2010.
The lawyer is however asking for an order “nullifying, annulling, voiding, cancelling and invalidating the appointment of the Executive Directors of AMCON by the President.” He also wants to obtain an order of perpetual injunction restraining the persons purportedly appointed by the President from functioning or further parading themselves as AMCON’s Executive Directors.
A month ago, Adegboruwa filed a suit at the federal high court in Lagos to force Buhari to appoint his ministers or resign as president.
The Nation
Adegboruwa has filed a suit saying the August 19 appointments were all blatant violation of the relevant statute setting up the agency.
Adegboruwa referred to Section 10(1) (C) of the AMCON Act 2010 which provides that the board, consisting of three executive directors nominated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in consultation with the Minister of Finance, must be appointed subject to Senate confirmation. He is however seeking a declaration that the President cannot appoint anyone as Executive Director of AMCON without complying with Section 10(1)C of the AMCON Act 2010.
The lawyer is however asking for an order “nullifying, annulling, voiding, cancelling and invalidating the appointment of the Executive Directors of AMCON by the President.” He also wants to obtain an order of perpetual injunction restraining the persons purportedly appointed by the President from functioning or further parading themselves as AMCON’s Executive Directors.
A month ago, Adegboruwa filed a suit at the federal high court in Lagos to force Buhari to appoint his ministers or resign as president.
The Nation
