A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has beenasked to dismiss a ₦100.5 billion defamation suit instituted by the NasarawaState Government and Governor Abdullahi Sule against the Vice Chancellor of theUniversity of Mkar, Benue State, Professor Zacharys Anger Gundu. The request is contained in a notice of preliminaryobjection filed by the defendant through his legal team led by Sebastian Hon,SAN. In the objection, Gundu challenged the competence of thesuit, marked FCT/HC/CV/3554/2025, and urged the court to decline jurisdiction,describing the case as frivolous and an abuse of court process. He argued that the claimants failed to comply with amandatory condition precedent required for the validity of the originatingprocesses, as stipulated under Order 2 Rule 8 of the FCT High Court CivilProcedure Rules, 2025. According to the objection, the alleged non-compliancerenders the suit procedurally defective and liable to be struck out.
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