Federal High Court Did Not Order Closure Of Ikoyi Registry...

The Federal Government on Friday denounced claims by the Lagos State Government that a Federal High Court had declared the power of Ikoyi Registry to conduct marriages null and voids.

Saying that the claim by the Lagos State Government was false, the Ministry of Interior said that the court, presided over by Justice Chuka Obiozor, simply upheld the judgment of a Federal High Court delivered in 2002, which was not appealed. The ministry said the case, Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1760/16, between Egor Local Government Area, Edo State and three others Vs. Ministry of Interior & others, cited by the Lagos State Government, was actually struck out by Justice Obiozor in his judgment delivered on April 30, 2018.


The Director of Legal, Ministry of Interior, Bola Odugbesan, made the clarification in a statement, in reaction to a press statement on Thursday by the Lagos Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs. The state government had claimed that Lagos State had secured a court injunction restraining the Ikoyi registry from conducting marriages.


Dismissing the claims, Odugbesan presented a copy of the judgment by Obiozor, who described the case as “an abuse of court process” and struck it out. Odugbesan insisted that the Federal High Court never ordered the closure of Ikoyi Marriage Registry, as claimed the state government.

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