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PROFESSOR MVENDAGA JIBO V. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION & ORS

(2016) JELR 41097 (CA)

Court of Appeal  •  CA/OW/425/2013  •  26 May 2016  •  Nigeria

Coram
ITA GEORGE MBABA JCA; PETER OLABISI IGE JCA; FREDERICK OZIAKPONO OHO JCA;

Judgement

FREDRICK OZIAKPONO OHO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an Appeal against the decision of the Federal High Court sitting at Umuahia presided over by F. A. OLUBANJO, J in a ruling delivered on the 29th day of October, 2013 dismissing the Appellant'?s case for being statute barred by virtue of the Public Officers'? Protection Act. The Plaintiff took out this action on 5th November, 2012 claiming against the Defendants jointly and severally whereupon he at paragraph 49 as follows:

1. A DECLARATION that the purported dissolution of the Governing Council of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike chaired by the Plaintiff by the 4th Defendant upon the advice of the 1st Defendant on 19th October, 2011 is unconstitutional, illegal, capricious, oppressive, mala fide, ultra-vires the powers of the 4th Defendant and in reckless disregard of the enabling Act, the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993 (as amended) and the White Paper which did not approve …

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