Ige: Omisore slams N20b suit against Oyo govt, IG

Thirteen years after the murder of the late Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, over which Iyiola Omisore was tried as having been the killer of the Cicero of Esa-Oke, Omisore has approached the court, asking for N20 billion as damages for what he described as ‘malicious damage’.
In a suit, FHC/IB/CS/51/2013, filed by Omisore’s Counsel, Albert Adeogun, at the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan before Justice Abimbola  Obaseki, the Oyo State Government, Attorney General of the state and the Inspector General of Police (igp) were the respondents/defendants.
Omisore, who was detained at the Agodi Prison in Ibadan while the trial lasted, contested the 2003 senatorial election for Osun West Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and won from the prison and subsequently became a senator for two consecutive terms up till 2011 when he was defeated by the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Babajide Omoworare.
At the hearing on Monday, Obaseki adjourned the adoption of leave of substitution tabled before the court by the counsel to Omisore, Adeogun, till Friday this week.
Adeogun prayed the court to substitute its earlier reply to the objection of defendants’ counsel with the latest one filed on February 7, 2014.
Counsel to first and second defendants, I. O. Tijani, who is a Deputy Director of litigation at the Ministry of Justice, Oyo State, had raised a preliminary objection filed on July 29, 2013 while Omisore’s counsel filed a reply to the objection dated January 3rd, 2014 and filed on January 6, 2014.
But the counsel to the defendants withdrew the objection again on January 31 this year and filed it on the same date.

However, counsel to the police, Funke Fawole, pleaded the court that she needed time to study the reply of counsel to Omisore, which she said she had not been served as at the time the court sat on Monday.