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Supreme Court Strikes Out All Appeals By Sheriff And Jimoh Ibrahim by akokaite(m): 2:36pm On Nov 24, 2016 |
The Supreme Court on Thursday further validated the
candidacy of Mr. Eyitayo Jegede as the PDP flag bearer in
Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State.
This was sequel to the striking out of all the pending
interlocutory appeals filed by the Ali Modu Sheriff faction of
the party.
Justice Walter Onnoghen, leading four other justices of the
apex court, held that Wednesday’s judgment of the Court of
Appeal on the main appeals rendered the interlocutory ones
academic.
Onnoghen held that it was against the rules of the court to
determine interlocutory appeals and motions when a lower
court had decided on the substantive issues.
“To this end, all interlocutory appeals relating to the Ondo
State PDP governorship crisis and the leadership tussle of
the party at the national level are hereby struck out.
“The contending parties are ordered to go back to the lower
court and do the needful. That would mean filing notice of appeal on the judgment of the Court of appeal,” he stated. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Court of Appeal on Wednesday removed Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the PDP in Saturday’s election. Jegede, the candidate of the Makarfi faction of the party, was relisted to contest against other leading candidates such as Rotimi Akeredolu of APC and Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy. Justice Ibrahim Saulaawa, who led two other justices in a unanimous decision, held that the Federal High Court, Abuja, erred in its Oct. 14 ruling which substituted Jegede’s name with that of Ibrahim. He also held that the court equally erred when it ordered INEC to remove the name of the appellant from its nomination register. Justice George Mbaba, who delivered the lead judgment on the party’s leadership crisis, described the process that led to the June 29 judgment as a “fraud”. Mbaba said the trial court breached Section 36(1) of the constitution by denying the Ahmed Makarfi Caretaker Committee right to fair hearing.
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