A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has again failed to deliver the much-anticipated ruling on the suit filed by an actor, St Maradona Mikevine, seeking to remove president of Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Ibinabo Fiberesima, and her executives.
It would be recalled that in 2013, Ibinabo emerged winner of an election conducted by the board of AGN led by Ifeanyi Dikeh and its former president, Segun Arinze, handed over to the former beauty queen.
On Friday, the court said the judgement was not ready and fixed March 16, 2015 as the new date for the ruling. This was after the trial judge, Justice James Tsoho, had failed to deliver the same judgement earlier scheduled for Wednesday.
Mikevine claimed the election that produced Ibinabo was conducted when there was a court order stopping the guild from holding an election.
He is asking the court to determine if it was proper for AGN to go ahead with an election when there is an order to the contrary.
But Ibinabo, in her defence, claimed the plaintiff (Mikevine) lacks the locus standi to file the suit against her since she did not contest an election against him.
The AGN president also maintained that she never conducted the poll that produced her as president of the guild, but the AGN board itself, had stressed that Mikevine ought to have channelled his grievance with the election to the Electoral Committee of AGN and not the court.
