Kamarudeen Ogundele, AbujaJustice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has been asked to hands off the case of alleged forged certificate of birth filed against the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, for alleged bias. Counsel representing the (1st defendant) Independent National Electoral Commission, Wale Ajayi, did not oppose the request. In his ruling, Justice Ekwo adjourned the matter till February 13, based on the consent of the lawyers. Secondly, the plaintiff averred that the present suit alleging certificate forgery was initially assigned to Justice A.R. Mohammed of Court 5 on 05/12/2018 , only to be reassigned to Justice Ekwo, when his counsel did not make any request that the matter be removed from Court 5.

Source: Punch February 06, 2019 23:13 UTC