FORMER
member of Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC, board, Dr.
Emibra Agbeotu, has instituted a suit against the state governor, Senator
Ifeanyi
Okowa and the State House of Assembly, over the alleged unlawful
dissolution of the commission and termination of his appointment as a member of
the board.
Also joined
in the suit number NICN/YEN/68/2017, brought before the National Industrial
Court of Nigeria, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, is DSIEC and the Attorney General of
Delta State. The claimant, in the summons, is praying the court to order the
defendants to pay him the sum of N12.5 million as salaries, allowances and
severance gratuity allowance for the remaining 11 months of his five years
tenure which he said was due for expiration in June, 2018. He also sought for a
declaration that the termination of his appointment “purportedly made pursuant
to the dissolution” of DSIEC on August 31, 2017, was “unlawful, null and void
and of no effect whatsoever.”
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