The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and 9 other former governors in the 10th Senate over their collection of both salaries and pensions as senators.
This is coming barely 3 weeks after the advocacy group filed a similar lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over his failure to stop former governors who are now serving as ministers in his administration from collecting life pensions and other ‘retirement benefits’ from their states while they serve as ministers.
Joined in the suit as Respondents are the following senators and ministers: Abdulaziz Yari; Aminu Tambuwal; Adamu Aliero; Adams Oshiomole; Ibrahim Gaidam; Seriake Dickson; Ibrahim Dankwambo; Aliyu Wammako; Gbenga Daniel, and Dave Umahi.
In the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1360/2023 filed last Friday at the Federal High Court in Abuja, SERAP is seeking:
SERAP is seeking:
SERAP is also seeking:
In the suit, SERAP is arguing that:
SERAP also argues that
SERAP also argues that
The suit filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyers, Kolawole Oluwadare and Ms Valentina Adegoke, read in part:
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.
