Justice Peter Kekemeke of an Abuja High Court on Thursday struck out former boxer Bash Alis suit for being statute barred.
Ali had instituted the suit against former Sports Minister and the National Sports Commission, Attorney General Sunday Dare.
Delivering a ruling on the preliminary objection by the defendant in the suit, Kekemeke held that the case was no longer valid because the time limit for bringing it to court had passed, as defined by a statute of limitations.
From the piece of evidence before the court, there is none pointing that the first defendant signed a contract.
The suit was filed on Oct. 10, 2021, three months before the claimants counter affidavit his case did not fall into the expectation known in law, and the cause of the act accrued on May 20, 2020, is statute barred.