An Anambra State based activist, Ifeanyi Okonkwo has dragged the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Soludo and three of his predecessors, Chris Ngige, Peter Obi and Willie Obiano to a Federal High court for allegedly running the affairs of the 21 local government areas in the state with unelected officials.
Okonkwo is praying the court to hold that by administering the councils through officials who are not democratically elected, Soludo and his predecessors have contravened both Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) and a subsisting judgment of the same court, which he said declared that the Anambra State Government has no powers to appoint officials to govern the local government areas.
The plaintiff is claiming that having acted contrary to the Constitution which they swore to uphold, the defendants should be barred by the court from contesting election or occupying public office or seeking for re-election under the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The suit instituted through originating summons at the Federal High Court, Awka the plaintiff sought nine consequential reliefs against the defendants premised on the interpretation of the previous judgment of the court in suit.

Listed as 1st to 8th defendants in the latest suit are the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Governor of Anambra State, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Anambra State and Anambra State House of Assembly.
Others are former governors, Ngige, Obi, Obiano, for themselves and on behalf of their transition chairmen and councilors and Livinus Onyenwe for himself and on behalf of transition chairmen under the Soludo administration.