Sacked Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has approached an Imo State High Court to stop the State House of Assembly from investigating him over allegations of missing N19.63bn.
The former governor filed the suit at the State High Court sitting in Owerri, asking the court to grant him a perpetual injunction restraining the lawmakers from probing him over the sum of N19.63 billion said to be missing from the Local Government account during his seven-month tenure.
Ihedioha also want the court to grant him a perpetual injunction restraining the Imo State House of Assembly from inviting him and questioning him about the alleged missing fund.
Listed as defendants in the suit are the Imo State House of Assembly, the Speaker, and the Clerk of the House of Assembly.
The former governor filed the suit weeks after the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, announced that the sum of N19.63 billion was missing from the Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) of the 27 Local Governments Areas of the state.
Governor Uzodinma had alleged that the money got missing under the watch of the immediate past administration led by Ihedioha.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo had, however, described the allegation by the governor as mischievous and a deliberate scheme of his administration to loot the resources of the state.
