A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday struck out an ex parte application seeking a mandamus order to compel the National Assembly to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill.
Justice Ibrahim Buba struck out the application filed by a lawyer, Mr. Okiogbero Edhebru, for lacking in merit. Edhebru, in the application tagged FHC/L/CS/1906/14, had asked the court for “a judicial review of the applicant’s right to wit an order of mandamus compelling the National Assembly, their agents and privies, to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
