Umahi petitions NJC against Justice Ekwo, as Ebonyi APC accuses judge of bias

For daring to sack him from office, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, has lodged a petition with the Nigerian Judicial Council (NJC) against a Federal High Court judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo.

This is even as the Ebonyi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) accused the judge of bias.

Both the governor and his deputy were sacked following their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2020.

But Umahi, who seems not to be fazed by the judgement, vowed on Tuesday that he remains governor and urged the people to remain calm as he was sure of quashing the ruling at the Appeal Court.

The Governor, who described the judgement as a jungle justice, noted that the Court lacks the powers to remove him as Governor as he was covered by immunity clause which protects him from any form of litigation that is not pre-election and tribunal matter.

Umahi also noted that there are two other similar cases on defection of a governor by an Ebonyi High Court and another in Zamfara which ruled in favour of governors.