He ordered the respondents to the suit including the Edo State Government, the governor, the Inspector-General of Police, and the Department of State Services, not to take any action until the court decides whether or not it has jurisdiction to entertain the APC chairman’s suit. was set up by the Edo State Government to investigate and make recommendations over the construction of the Edo Specialist Hospital and supply of equipment for the hospital, during the tenure of Oshiomhole as the governor of the state. READ ALSO: FG relaxes restriction on churches, mosquesThe commission in its report issued in May indicted Oshiomhole’s administration for breach of the state’s Public Procurement Law. The judge directed Oshiomhole’s lawyer to, within 48 hours, serve all the respondents the processes he had filed in the case. Oshiomhole, who is the immediate-past governor of the state, was instrumental to the emergence of Obaseki as the governor of the state in November 2016.

Source: Punch June 01, 2020 18:00 UTC