The spokesman of Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State, Audu Adejoh, has confirmed the involvement of his boss in an auto crash as exclusively reported by The Eagle Online.
Adejoh, who spoke with our correspondent at about 1am after reading the story on www.theeagleonline.com.ng, however, said that his boss was not injured.
The aide, who expressed shock at to how The Eagle Online got the story, said that the accident occurred because a driver, who had parked on seeing the convoy, erroneously got in front of Idris’ car on the assumption that the convoy had passed.
He told The Eagle Online: “In the process, he pushed the governor’s Jeep off the road and right into the bush.
“But the governor was not injured.
“We really thank God for that.”
On the judgment to be delivered by the Supreme Court this morning on the tenure elongation suit brought before it by his boss and four other governors, Adejoh said he had no comment.
He said like other Nigerians, Idris was also looking forward to the position of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court will this morning deliver judgment in the case filed by Idris; the Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Murtala Nyako; the Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva; the Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko; and the Cross Rivers State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke.
As reported by The Eagle Online yesterday, Idris is nursing the fear that the judgment will not go the eay of the governors, hence his decision to rush back to Lokoja, the state capital, to pack his belongings out of the Government House.
Among the five governors who initiated the suit, Idris is the only one who is not seeking a fresh mandate as he has served the maximum two terms.
Ordinarily, his tenure should have ended on May 29, 2011.
The fears of the governors stem from the position of two out of the three legal luminaries engaged by the Supreme Court to give a position on the issue.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had gone to the Supreme Court to challenge the decision of the Court of Appeal that the governors were entitled to tenure elongation, having had to go through another election and swearing-in after their initial election were upturned by the court.
This was also the position of the Federal High Court.
A full panel of the apex court on November 21, 2011 heard the argument of plaintiffs’ lawyers and those of the three amici curiae invited to address it on the issue – Chief Richard Akinjide, Professor Itse Sagay and Chief G.O.K. Ajayi.
Only Akinjide supported the upholding of the decision of the lower courts.
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