The BoT, in another motion, also sought a stay of execution of the judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo on Friday.
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Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed a suit seeking a declaration that he was not qualified to be ALGON’s national president.
Justice A.O. Ebong of an Abuja Federal High Court had issued an order attaching the accounts of the state in 10 commercial banks.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the media covered the sitting of the committee, which was held on Wednesday.
Ebonka also explained that contrary to insinuations, the loan was secured by the LGCs, not the State Government.
Fani-Kayode is charged alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman and Yusuf Danjuma, a former Chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON).
Justice Inyang Ekwo, who declined to grant the plea by counsel to the defendants in the suit, adjourned the matter until Dec. 13.
It, therefore, called on President Buhari to, “in the national interest,” immediately halt the payment processes until after investigations.
Ezekiel Vulgap, Plateau State ALGON Chairman, made the position known in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Jos after submitting the ALGON memorandum to the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution.
The ALGON Chairman, Prince Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye, made the dedication at a news conference on Saturday in Ibadan.
Marshal, leading a delegation that included ALGON’s National Treasurer, the Director of Legal and Administration and some counsel, told the DIG Department of Finance and Administration, Sanusi Lemu, and the FCT Commissioner of Police, Bala Ciroma, how Hon. Maje, who they said is neither the ALGON State Chairman in Niger State, where he comes from, nor a member of the association’s National Executive Council, led thugs to invade the ALGON national office in Abuja on April 16, 2021.
Alabi was quoted making the call in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Obiora Orji, at a two-day strategic retreat organised by the association in Lagos.
Constantine Ikiako, former ALGON Deputy National President, made the call while briefing newsmen on the sidelines of the association’s National Executive Council meeting on Wednesday in Kano.
This was contained in a statement by Hon. Ige Ropo Emmanuel and the entire members of the IMC set up recently due to some misgivings, misunderstanding and misrepresentation of facts in the affairs of the group.
Jingi Rufai, the ALGON state Chairman, who said this during a news briefing in Yola on Sunday added that the association conducts monthly meeting where funds and projects are distributed equitably for proper execution across the state’s 21 LGAs.
The ALGON members from various states of the federation gave their confidence on Thursday in Abuja during the National Executive Council meeting.
The General Assembly, which is the highest decision organ of ALGON, had on May 30, 2020 during its extraordinary virtual meeting resolved to set up the IMC.
The ALGON in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman and the Secretary, Joshua Omokanye and Abdullahi Abubakar-Bata, said the decision was collectively reached after exhaustive deliberation.
The Chairman of ALGON in Edo State, Jerkins Osunde, who was represented by Osi Akhigbe, Etsako Central Chairman, at a news briefing said the process would undermine all efforts at containing the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
The Kano State chapter of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria has withdrawn from the state COVID-19 palliatives distribution committee.