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By Chinelo Obogo
The suit brought by the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) against the Federal Government over the establishment of a national carrier will be moved to Abuja from Lagos, Saturday Sun has learned.
The first, third and fourth defendants (Nigeria Air, Minister of Aviation and the Attorney General of the Federation) filed a motion asking that the court move its proceedings from the Federal High Court, Lagos, to the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
In a Motion of Notice jointly signed on January 13, 2023, by Liman Sulieman Shehu (esq), Maimuna Shiru, Orlowo Oluwaseun, the court accepted that the proceeding be moved to Abuja but didn’t specify a date.
The notice read: “Take notice that this honourable court may be moved on the….day of …..2023 of the hour of 9’oclock in the forenoon or so soon thereafter as counsel may be heard on behalf of the 1st, 3rd and 4th defendant/praying this Honourable Court for the following orders: An order for this Honorable Court transferring this suit to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja judicial division for determination, being the judicial division of this Court on substantial part of their business and for such order or further orders as this Honourable Court may seem fit to make in the circumstances of this case.”
On November 19, 2022, AON filed an originating sum¬mons against the Federal Government for the establish¬ment of a new national carrier after the liquidation of Nigeria Airways.
AON had prayed that the court look at the extant laws and in¬terpret such to know if the pro-cesses to start a new national carrier were not in vio¬lation of the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
