Justice D. E. Osiagor of a Lagos High Court has ordered Bola-Audu Innocent and his cohorts to vacate the National Secretariat of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria in Lagos immediately or face the wrath of the law.
In a verdict delivered on Wednesday,Justice Osiagor ruled that it is an abuse of court process for Bola-Auduo and his group to bring a trade union matter already being handled by the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja to his court.
He vacated and discharged his earlier order which allowed Bola-Audu access to the Secretariat.
He also lifted the embargo placed on the bank accounts of the Association and restored Comrade Tommy Etim Okon PhD and Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, the National President and the Secretary-General of the Union respectively as the authentic and legal signatories to the bank accounts of the Association.
He held that since the matter before him is an intra-union dispute, he has no jurisdiction to enter trial moreso because the Applicant himself has taken his case to the NIC in Abuja where he is praying the court to compel appropriate organs of the union to revoke his suspension and expulsion and reinstate him as the National President of the Association.
