Court sets aside Abia white paper indicting Yar'Adua, Obasanjo, others - ndn nigeriadailynews.com

The Abia State Government White Paper, which indicted some serving and past public office holders, including President Musa Yar’Adua, Vice President Jonathan Goodluck, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Abia State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the April general elections, Chief Onyema Ugochukwu amongst others has been set aside by a Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia. Justice H.T. Soba, the presiding judge in the enforcement right suit, brought by Chief Ugochukwu, who had prayed the court to quash report of the panel, which indicted him alongside other notable Nigerians of corruption and misconduct, held that procedure adopted by the administration of the former government of Chief Orji Kalu in setting up the panel was ultra vires, as it offends the provision of section 36 of the 1999 constitution. Full Story