Ndubuisi Kanu: Court joins probate registrar in inheritance suit
The Ikeja High Court has joined its probate registrar in a suit on the estate of the late Rear Adm. Ndubuisi Kanu.
In a ruling on Monday, Justice Christopher Balogun joined the probate registrar as one of the respondents in the suit, citing a Supreme Court ruling.
“In respect of the application of the claimant’s counsel to join the probate registrar in the suit, I have listened carefully to the counsel in the suit.
“The probate registrar is hereby joined in the suit as a desirable party and is at liberty to file defence.
“The case is hereby adjourned until June 23 for hearing of the originating summons,” Mr Balogun said.
Gladys, one of the wives of the late military administrator of Lagos and Imo, had filed the suit seeking the Nigerian Navy to calculate the entitlements of the late naval chief into a bank account.
She is also seeking to be declared the only widow of the deceased on basis that they lived together until his death.
The respondents in the suit are the children of the late naval chief, his two other wives – Josephine and Christine – and the Nigerian Navy.
Counsel to Mrs Gladys, Wale Adesokan (SAN), had filed an application dated April 4, seeking an order of the court to join the probate registrar in the suit.
Counsel representing the probate registrar had opposed the application, saying that it was neither a proper party, a necessary party, nor a desirable party in the suit.
On May 12, the court had ordered the claimant to serve the registrar of the court’s probate, an amended originating summons she presented to the court.
(NAN)
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