A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Aondoakaa on Monday asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to review a Supreme Court judgement which barred him from holding public office.

That Aondoakaa, who was the country’s chief law officer during the administration of former president, Umaru Yar’Adua, in a fresh suit filed before the court argued that the judgement barring him from public office was fraudulently obtained.

The Calabar division of the FHC in 2010 declared Aondoakaa unfit to hold public office on account of his “abuse of powers” while he was the AGF.

The Court of Appeal affirmed the decision of the high court in September 2015, after which the Supreme Court in December 2021 also affirmed the judgment.

A defendant in the suit and former House of Representatives member, Emmanuel Obot, claimed that Aondoakaa’s new suit was not only funny but strange in law.

In a preliminary objection filed on his behalf by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Uwemedimo Nwoko, the 1st defendant is challenging the competence of a high court to review and set aside the judgment of the Supreme Court as being sought by the former AGF.

Among others, Nwoko on behalf of his client, claimed in a counter affidavit that the high court lacked jurisdiction to sit as an appellate court in a decision already concluded by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

The senior lawyer further said that the fresh suit of the former justice minister amounted to a dangerous invitation capable of knocking the head of the high court against that of the Supreme Court.

Nwoko therefore asked the high court to decline the invitation, refuse to review the apex court judgment and dismiss the suit.

Aondoakaa in his new suit asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to set aside a Supreme Court judgment which banned him from holding public office.

The Supreme Court verdict which barred him from holding public office was unanimously handed down against him by a five-man panel of justices of the apex court on December 10, 2021.

Apart from being banned from public office due to professional misconduct and abuse of office, Aondoakaa was also ordered to pay a sum of N2m to his victim, Obot.