A Federal High Court in Abuja has been requested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to reject the reliefs that Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is seeking in his basic rights enforcement suit, calling them speculative.
In response to Sanwo-Olu’s original summons, the EFCC informed Justice Joyce Abdulmalik in its counter-affidavit that the governor’s conduct in this case is only speculative.
As you may remember, Sanwo-Olu, via his attorney Darlington Ozurumba, had sued the anti-graft agency as the only defendant, alleging that the agency threatened to arrest, imprison, and prosecute him during his time as general.
The governor asked seven questions and requested eleven reliefs in the original summons, which was filed on June 6 and had the date of the summons marked FHC/ABJ/CS/773/2024.
Sanwo-Olu requested a declaration that, under and by virtue of the provisions of Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution, “the plaintiff, as a citizen of Nigeria, is entitled to the right to private and family life as a minimum guarantee encapsulated under the Constitution of the Republic of Nigeria, 1999 before, during, and after the occupation of a public office created by the Constitution.”
He also asks the court to rule that, based on a community interpretation of Sections 35(1) & (4) and 41(1) of the constitution, the EFCC’s threat to investigate, arrest, and detain him during his time as governor is unlawful.
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