The duo of rights activists, Deji Adeyanju and Chief Patrick Eholor, have instituted a law suit challenging the legality of the appointment of Hannatu Musawa as a Federal Minister.
The law suit was instituted by Comrade Deji Adeyanju and Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor against Hanatu Musawa over her appointment as a Federal Minister while she is still a serving corps member, even when her alleged membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is so clear to everyone.
The law suit, filed at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, in suit No FHC/ABJ/CS /1198/2023, has the President of Nigeria, Attorney General of the Federation, and Hannatu Musawa as parties and was filed by Abuja based human rights lawyer, Samuel Ihensekhien Jnr, on behalf of the rights activists.
Speaking on the case, Barrister Ihensekhien Jnr said: “It is so obvious that Hannatu Musawa is a serving corps member who is appointed as a Federal Minister of Nigeria. It is now so crystal clear from the authoritative pronouncements of the Supreme Court in the case of Modibbo v Usman decided in 2019, that a youth corps member is not competent to contest any election in Nigeria and or engage in partisan politics like Hannatu Musawa in this case.
In the same vein, a person just like Hannatu now a Federal Minister of Nigeria who has not completed the compulsory one year youth service is not competent to be appointed a Minister in Nigeria since the Constitution has prescribed the same qualifications and disqualifications for election into the House of Representatives and appointment into the post of a Minister.
The suit is seeking for five distinct reliefs and other ancillary/mandatory consequential injunctions in this regard.
According to a national daily, NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, admitted that the Minister has been serving for the past eight months in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Mr Megwa explained that it was a breach of the NYSC act for any corps member to pick up government appointment until the one year of service was over.
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