Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa sued the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission, Department of State Services, and the Nigerian Police Force. On Friday, a Federal High Court in Abuja set the judgment date for October 25.
Bulkachuwa reportedly admitted in front of the public during the 9th Senate’s farewell session that he had influenced his wife, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, when she was serving as the President of the Court of Appeal.
As the Court of Appeal’s President from 2014 to 2020, Justice Bulkachuwa retired from the bench when he turned the mandatory age of 70.
In the lawsuit, Bulkachuwa claimed that the ICPC, DSS, and other parties conspired with his political adversaries to harass him after making a farewell remark on the Senate floor, which he claimed his adversaries continued to misrepresent.
Bulkachuwa claimed he was shocked to receive a request from the ICPC asking him to appear for an interview on June 22 so that he could be questioned regarding his remark on the Senate floor.
He claimed that under the law, only the Senate’s committee of the whole or any of its subcommittees had the authority to summon him to testify in response to inquiries about his behavior or statements made on the floor of the upper chamber.
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Additionally, Bulkachuwa requested a permanent injunction barring the defendants and other federal government agencies from requesting that he appear before them for interviews or questioning regarding his rambling remarks on the 9th Senate floor.
Bulkachuwa’s attorney, Donald Ayibiowu, urged the court to grant all of the requested reliefs during the hearing on Friday.
The Clerk of the National Assembly claimed in a counter affidavit that Bulkachuwa was exempt from legal action for anything said or written during the plenary session.
Oyin Koleoso, the attorney for the Attorney General, criticized the plaintiff’s argument, claiming that since he was no longer a Senator, he was no longer immune from arrest and prosecution.
Koleoso argued for the dismissal of the lawsuit.
