Court Orders Immigration to Release Int’l Passport of Ex Rivers Governor

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, to immediately release the international passport of former Rivers State Governor, Dr Peter Odili, which was unlawfully seized from him in July this year.

Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo who presided over the matter on Monday, held that the action of Immigration is not only unlawful but illegal, unconstitutional and utra vires.

Justice Ekwo, in a judgement of the suit filed by Odili to challenge the seizure of his passport, upheld the submission that the Immigration and its Comptroller General lacked the constitutional powers to do what they did.