The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), has been dragged before the Federal High Court in Abuja, by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives over the controversial 6th broadcasting code.
A copy of the originating summon sighted by The Nation in Abuja joins Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami as defendant in the suit.
Plaintiffs in the suit are caucus leader Kingsley Chinda; his Deputy Chukwuma Onyema; Caucus Deputy Whip Ajibola Muraina; Mark Gbillah; Tyough Robert; Bulus Solomon; Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum; Yusuf Ayo Tajudeen and Onyeman Chukwuma.
The Chinda- led PDP caucus is backed by the Uche Secondus- led national leadership of the PDP but not recognised by the leadership of the House.
It claimed to have instituted the case on behalf of “themselves, individually and as representatives of the PDP caucus in the House of Representatives”.