THERE appears to be a new dimension in the legal tussle arising from the election of Senate’s presiding officers last June.

Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has written to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court asking that the case be recalled from Justice A. Ademola’s court and transferred or reassigned to any other judge for hearing and speedy determination.

As a result of the disagreement that greeted the emergence of the leadership of the 8th Senate, some senators protested against the adoption of Senate Rule 2015 for the election of the presiding officers.

Five APC senators, including Abu Ibrahim, Kabiru Garba Marafa, Robert Ajayi Boroffice, Olugbenga Ashafa and Othman Hundeyin later dragged the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Ekweremadu, the National Assembly, clerk of the National Assembly, clerk of the Senate and the Senate to the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/651/2015.

Ekweremadu’s letter dated December 17th, 2015 and copied to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, sighted the alleged closeness of justice Ademola to the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as one of the reasons why he might not get fair hearing.

He also alleged that the recent appointment of the wife of Justice Ademola, Mrs. Olabowale Toluwalope Ademola, as the Head of Service of Lagos State would further make it impossible for Ademola to be impartial.

Ekweremadu’s allegation was contained in a letter tagged “Application for transfer of suit (order 49 rule 2).”