On Thursday, a Yenagoa-based Federal High Court deferred making a decision in a case contesting the continued employment of a Sole Administrator to oversee the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The lawsuit against the use of a lone administrator to operate the NDDC was brought before Justice Dashen by Odighonin Adienbo, The Integrity Friends for Truth and Peace Initiatives, and nine other parties.
Justice Isa Dashen, the presiding judge, had scheduled the case for judgement on October 13 after adjourning it on July 13. However, as the court began to meet, authorities notified the parties to the case that the judge had stated the judgement was not yet ready.
The parties were informed that a date would be shared with them, thus no date was also set for the judgement.
The plaintiffs had argued that the concept of sole administrator was alien and contrary to the NDDC Act which provides for a board constituted of representatives of all states of the Niger Delta.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and NDDC are listed as first and second defendants in the suit marked FHC/YNG/CS/135/2021.
Justice Dashen, it would be recalled, had on April 5 granted an interim order restraining the Federal Government from using sole administrator to run the NDDC pending the determination of the pending suit.