Sacked UNIZIK VC Withdraws Case Against Education Minister
The sacked Vice-Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Professor Bernard Odoh, has withdrawn his lawsuit against the Minister of Education after initially challenging his removal.
Odoh, a former Secretary to the Ebonyi State Government, had filed the suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to prevent the minister from reconstituting the university’s governing council.
His dismissal followed President Bola Tinubu’s dissolution of the council on 20 November 2024, which also led to the removal of the university’s Registrar, Mrs. Rosemary Nwokike.
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“But Odoh, in an ex-parte application and motion on Notice, had sought for an order stopping the Defendants from taking any further step to re-constitute the Council or Governing Council of the University pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice filed along the application.”
“However, barely three days of filing the application which a date has not fixed, Odoh on Monday filed a ‘Notice of Discontinuance,’ citing Order 50 Rule 2 (1), Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2019).”
The court document obtained by SaharaReporters on Monday evening, showed that Odoh’s legal team, led by Professor Chimezie Kingsley Okorie (SAN), C.E. Ibekwe (Esq), and C.O. Ikerionwu (Esq), filed the application.
“TAKE NOTICE that the plaintiffs hereby withdraw the suit against Defendants and discontinue this Suit in its entirety.”
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