Following President Muhammadu Buhari's alleged intentions to extend the tenure of the Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammed Babandede, the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in Abuja will on Tuesday hear a suit seeking to void the purported extension.

 A lawyer, Daniel Makolo, in the suit is seeking the court to declare that no known laws allows the President, by himself or through any agency of government, to extend the period of service of a public officer with statutory tenure, and that the court should also declare that Babandede’s  tenure, as a public officer employed on September 13, 1985, as an Immigration Officer, has ended and his further stay in office “is arbitrary, unlawful, immoral and unconstitutional”.

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