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Breaking. by donc26(m): 2:54pm On Apr 01, 2019 |
Supreme Court to hear appeals on Rivers’ APC’s
dispute Thursday
~ by Eric Ikhilae, Abuja April 1, 2019
A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court has
scheduled hearing for Thursday (April 4) in four
appeals relating to the lingering intra-party dispute
among members of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) in Rivers State.
The four appeals, The Nation learnt, are in relation
to the some interlocutory decisions of the lower
courts on the dispute that has polarised the party
and affected the outcome of the primaries it
conducted preparatory to the 2019 general
elections.
The Justice Ibrahim Muhammad-led seven-man
panel adjourned to April 4 after addressing some
preliminary issues on the appeals on Monday.
The first of the appeals, marked: SC/ 1972019 was
filed by Magnus Abe and some others, with APC
and the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) listed among the respondents.
The court granted the motion by the APC,
represented by Jibrin Okutepa (SAN) for permission
to merge the different respondents’ briefs, earlier
filed by the 2nd to the 35th respondents, into a
single brief.
It rejected a similar motion filed by the appellants’
lawyer, Henry Bello for leave (permission) to
amend the notice of appeal.
The court noted that the motion was defective
because Bello failed to attach the old notice of
appeal to the motion, as required. It noted that the
lawyer only attached his proposed amended notice
of appeal.
It adjourned to April 4 for hearing, before which the
appellants are to, within 48 hours, filed their reply
to the respondents’ brief of argument.
The other appeals are: SC 295/ 20019, filed by
APC, with PDP listed among respondents; SC266,
filed by APC, with Magnus Abe and others as
respondents and SC/267/2019 filed by Tonye
Patrick Cole, with Magnus Abe and 48 others as
respondents.
The three appeals were adjourned to April 4 to
allow the formal service of hearing notices and all
other processes on INEC, which was not
represented on Monday.
Other members of the seven-man panel of the
Supreme Court are: Justices Olukayode Ariwoola,
Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, Amiru Sanusi, Paul Galinje,
Amina Augie, and Uwani Musa Abba Aji. |
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