A Federal High Court in Lagos presided over by Justice Okechukwu Okeke, on Wednesday adjourned ruling on the application by Barrister Jiti Ogunye seeking an interlocutory injunction to restrain Nigerian Football Federation, the league board, other defendants and their agents from implementing the verdict of the Prof. Akin Ibidapo-Obe Arbitration Panel report till the 21st of February.
The court also struck out the application by sacked NPL Chairman, Davidson Owumi, to upturn his removal from office by the NFF General Assembly, stating that it lacks merit.
“Owumi cannot file a motion to challenge his removal from office through the back door when he doesn’t have a substantive claim” he said.
Ogunye believes that the order made on September 6, 2010 by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in suit No FITC/L/CS/962/10 which annulled the elections into the NFF conducted on the 26th of August last year, is upon the discontinuance of the suit, being impudently disobeyed by the Board and the Congress of the NFF.
“I would not rest on my oars to ensure that football matters don’t rubbish the law profession in the country. The NFF has violated the provision of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the integrity of the Federal High Court and the sanctity of it orders”, he said.
“The rule of law negates the orderly administration of justice in the country and impacts bad laws practices which would adversely affect the faith of clients in the inviolability of the orders of the court,” Ogunye added.
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