Court agrees to hear Obaseki’s motion in suit challenging validity of his academic credentials

By Eric Ikhilae, Abuja

A Federal High Court in Abuja has elected to first hear a motion by Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki querying the competence of the response by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to his defence in a suit querying the validity of his academic credentials.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed took the decision in a ruling on Monday after listening to lawyers representing parties in the suit, marked: FHC/B/CS/74/2020 filed by the APC and a member, Edobor Williams.

Justice Mohammed agreed with Obaseki’s lawyer, Ken Mozia, to the effect the court must first determine the competence of the processes filed by parties, which formed pleadings in the case, before proceeding to conduct substantive hearing.

The judge said since Obaseki’s application, challenging the competence of some paragraphs of the plaintiffs’ reply to his defence was pending, it must be heard first and determined one way or the other before the court could proceed to hear the main suit.