{"id":7221,"date":"2018-01-15T23:18:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2018-01-15T23:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:18:55","slug":"appeal-court-orders-buhari-to-name-minister-to-represent-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7221","title":{"rendered":"Appeal court orders Buhari to name minister to represent Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal Abuja in a unanimous decision Monday evening delivered a landmark judgment declaring FCT Abuja Indigenes are entitled to Ministerial representation in the Federal Executive Council (FEC) as provided by the combined provisions of Sec. 147(3), 299, 14(3) &amp; 42 of 1999 Constitution.<br \/>\nThe court also declared that the persistent denial and refusal of past Presidents and current President to so appoint an Indigene of FCT Abuja as a Minister in the Federal Executive Council since May 1999 is tantamount to a gross violation of the said Constitutional rights including fundamental right against discrimination.<br \/>\nThe court directed the President to immediately make the said appointment. A cost of N100, 000 awarded against the President and AGF as 1st and 2nd respondents.<br \/>\nThe lead judgment was written by Justice Komolafe, in the petition filed by an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Muss Panya-Baba.<br \/>\nPanya-Baba has been in the forefront of advocacy for indigenous FCT peoples, whose land was taken by the federal government to relocate the federal capital from Lagos to Abuja.<br \/>\nDetails later&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_180116_001627_451.sdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal Abuja in a unanimous decision Monday evening delivered a landmark judgment declaring FCT Abuja Indigenes are entitled to Ministerial representation in the Federal Executive Council (FEC) as provided by the combined provisions of Sec. 147(3), 299, 14(3) &amp; 42 of 1999 Constitution. The court also declared that the persistent denial and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}