Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja Federal High Court has declined to entertain the suit by former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation,  Abdulmumin Jibrin, seeking to stop the alleged plan by the House to suspend him.

Justice Abang, who is sitting as the court’s vacation judge, returned the case file to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for re-assignment to another judge when the regular court resumes in September.

The judge explained that it will not be possible for him to conclude the case before he winds up as vacation judge next week,

Jibrin’s lawyer, Abdulamid Mohammed, on Thursday informed the court that the defendants served him with their notice of preliminary objection on Wednesday and that he has filed a response.

He sought a short stand down of the proceedings to enable him to retrieve a copy of his response from the court’s registry so that the hearing could proceed.

But defendants’ lawyer, Kalu Onuoha objected to Mohammed’s request for a stand down.

He sought an adjournment to enable him to study the plaintiff’s response and decide whether or not to equally respond.

But Justice Abang noted that it was unnecessary to commence hearing in the case during vacation since he would not be able to conclude hearing and determination of the case before the end of the court’s vacation on September 9.

Defendants in the suit are the House of Representatives, the House Clerk, Speaker Yakubu Dogara; Deputy Speaker Yusuf Lasun, House whip, Alhassan Doguwa, minority leader, Leo Ogor, and eight other members of the House.

Jibrin has made series of corruption allegations against Speaker Dogara and three other principal officers of the house, as well as some other House members.

The Kano State lawmaker is accusing them of illegally padding the 2016 budget by billions of naira.