Edo 2020: Judge withdraws from suit against Ize-Iyamu over petition
Justice Taiwo Taiwo has recused himself from a suit challenging the qualification of Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Sept. 19 governorship election in Edo State. Mr Taiwo, a judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, withdrew from the case on Thursday following a petition filed against him by one of the lawyers in the APC legal team. The judge decried the attempt by the lawyer to call his integrity to question and maliciously tarnish his image. “As judges and lawyers in the temple of justice, it is our duty to protect