A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, struck out a suit instituted by a Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) seeking to compel the Igbo ethnic group to quit Nigeria.
The suit was filed in 2022 by the group made up of elders and politicians from the North, led by Nastura Shariff, Balarabe Rufa’i, Abdul-Aziz Sulaiman and Aminu Adam.
However, when the case came up for hearing, the presiding judge, Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo promptly threw it out for want of diligent prosecution following the persistent absence of the plaintiffs in court to establish their case as none of the plaintiffs, lawyers or representatives were present.
