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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday lost a suit filed against him at the Federal High Court, Abuja, by Senator Ifeanyi Ararume.
Buhari had sacked Ararume as the non-executive Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in January 17, 2023
Following his dismissal, Ararume approached the court to declare his removal as the NNPCL chief illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional and that it was a total breach of CAMA law under which the NNPCL was incorporated.
He also prayed the court to issue an order to return him to office and also demanded N100 billion as compensation for the damages he suffered nationally and internationally.
Delivering judgement, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja voided Ararume’s sacking and awarded N5bn as damages against Buhari and the NNPCL, to be paid for the disruption of Ararume’s appointment on the grounds that the action of the President was arbitrary, unlawful and illegal.
The justice ordered that Ararume be immediately restored to office as the non-executive chairman of the NNPCL.
The judge also declared as null and void all decisions of the Board of Directors of the NNPCL carried out in the absence of Ararume.
Justice Ekwo held that Buhari acted ultra vires, wrongful, illegal, null, and void in the ways and manners Ararume was sacked after using his name to register the NNPCL and that such an act could not stand in the face of the law.
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