HON. MRS. DOROTHY MATO VS. MR. HERMAN HEMBE:How Government House Makurdi allegedly gave N400Million to Supreme Court for the sack of Herman Hembe from NASS - Counsel To Hembe

This is a blow by blow account on how Hon Mrs Mato got judgement from supreme court ,how Govt house makurdi gave a bribe of N400million to sack Hembe.This is as narated by counsel to Hembe:

What transpired from the Federal High Court Makurdi up to Supreme Court.

I will be as brief as possible.

I was the Lawyer that represented Herman at both the FHC and Court of Appeal, and was a member of the team at the Supreme Court.

The suit was filed in makurdi and sealed by the judge on 31st March 2015 after Herman Hembe had contested against the PDP candidate and won.

While the PDP candidate sued him at the Election Tribunal, Mrs Mato sued at the Federal High Court.

Shortly after we were served with the Originating Summons, JUSON all over Nigeria went on strike only to resume 5 to 6 months later.

Upon resumption, we filed objection challenging the court's jurisdiction on the ground of service. LAWYERS know very well that the law requires that if you are challenging the Court's jurisdiction on the ground of service, you must not take any step in the matter, like filing your defense on the merit as that will amount to waiver. So, we did not file a defense at that stage.

The APC who is also sued filed a P.O as well. The court hearing the objections and dismissed the suit as being statute barred, ie, that 3 months has passed since the cause of action arose.

She appealed and contended that the issue of statute barred was raised by the court suo motu, and that the court ought to have asked the parties to address it. For that reason, that she was denied fair hearing. She asked the court to invoke section 16 of the CA Act and hear the originating summons.

In our respondent brief, we contended that the law is clear that if the issue raised suo motu is that of law, the court need not call on parties to address it. We also pointed out that one of the findings of the trial court is that the ruling is solely on the objection, and that the substantive suit cannot be delved into at that stage, and that they did not appeal against that finding. When you didn't appeal against any findings of the court, it stands.

The court of appeal dismissed their appeal and refused to go into the substantive suit, upholding the findings of the trial court that the substantive originating summons cannot be delved into at that stage. They appealed to Supreme Court.

Two days to the judgement, we got information that the Government House Makurdi had delivered N400Million to the Supreme Court through a proxy, that Herman Hembe will be sacked by all means possible. Of course what will anyone do in that circumstance?

The judgement came and it was so!

Now, what will shock you is that the Case of Governor Tambuwal of Sokoto state is same with Hembe's case, that is, the appeal resulted from interlocutory ruling of the FHC. While the same CJN chaired panel remitted the matter back to Federal High Court to hear the substantive suit, he assumed  jurisdiction in Hembe's case, without allowing Hembe or APC to file defense, he sacked him. Is there fair hearing here? It is even worst still that Mato's Lawyers did not appeal against the findings of the court of appeal that the originating summons cannot be delved into.

The second thing to shock you is that one of the reasons Mato was returned was that Since Sen. Gemade is from Konshisha LGA, that House of Reps member should come from the appellant's Vandekya LGA. Is this known to any law in the entire world?

JUSTICE ONNOGHEN HAS THE FINAL SAY AT THE SUPREME COURT, BUT GOD HAS THE FINAL FINAL SAY!!!

HEMBE'S DEFENSE COUNSEL
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