The couple were arrested by London Metropolitan Police in June and appeared before a magistrate court in July.
In suit number: FHC/EN/CS/171/22, between Chief Ogochukwu Onyema vs Senator Ahmed Lawan, the Senate, Ekweremadu, INEC and the PDP, the applicant dragged Ekweremadu to court, seeking a declaration of Ekweremadu’s Senate seat vacant and in turn declare him the next in line to assume the seat.
At the hearing of the matter on Wednesday in Enugu, Onyema, who contested the PDP Senate primaries with Ekweremadu in 2018, however, brought a motion to amend the originating summons.
The presiding judge, Justice Umar Mohammed Garba, therefore adjourned the matter until November 9 for motion for regularisation and possible hearing and to enable all parties to be served.
Speaking with newsmen, Onyema said that his plot to sack Ekweremadu from the Senate was not to witch-hunt him, but to actualise his aspiration to represent his people in the Senate.
On the revelation that the person who came second in the 2018 primaries that brought in Ekweremadu was not dead as was stated in his affidavit, Onyema said, “I don’t want to delve into that.”