President Muhammadu Buhari speaks with minister of knowledge Lai Mohammed (photograph credit score: State House)
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says he isn't conscious of a court docket order compelling the National Assembly to start impeachment course of in opposition to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Justice Maureen Onyetenu of the Federal High Court in Osogbo granted the order of mandamus on Wednesday.
But the minister informed newsmen on the finish of the weekly assembly of the Federal Executive Council that “I’m just hearing it from you. I will have to read it myself.”
Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, Ilesa department, Kanmi Ajibola and a human rights activist Suleiman Adeniyi had filed the movement resulting in this order.
The legal professionals had written to the Senate and the House of Representatives to start impeachment course of in opposition to the President.
But the federal lawmakers refused to proceed with the request.
They, then, approached the court docket looking for an order to compel the National Assembly to start the method.