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The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Afam Osigwe, SAN, has criticised the Federal High Court for entertaining the suit brought before it on local government election disputes in Osun State.

Speaking with Sunday PUNCH, Osigwe stated that the genesis of the crisis in Osun could be traced to the Federal High Court’s decision on the local government suits which he had no jurisdiction over.

In 2022, the Peoples Democratic Party filed a suit against the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, the All Progressives Congress, and others at the Federal High Court in Osogbo.

The PDP challenged the conduct of the local government council elections, citing non-compliance with the mandatory provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022.

In a judgement delivered on November 25, 2022, the court granted all the reliefs sought by the PDP, nullified the local government elections conducted by OSIEC on October 15, 2022, and directed the elected council chairmen to vacate the office.

Dissatisfied with the judgment, APC and other parties filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal in Akure, Ondo State.

In its judgement, the appellate court agreed with the APC and set aside the decision of the Federal High Court because the PDP did not file a valid originating process to confer jurisdiction on the lower court.

However, OSIEC conducted a new LG election on February 22, against the advice of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN.

Reacting to the Osun LG crisis, Osigwe said, “What is the business of the Federal High Court in giving decisions one way or the other concerning local government elections in the state? That is the root of the problem in Osun State.

“Does the Federal High Court have jurisdiction to make pronouncements on whether a law passed concerning local government elections is valid or invalid? Does it have the power to do so? Why are cases like this brought to the Federal High Court instead of the State High Court where they ought to be determined?

“This is the starting point. All the cases referred to that went on appeal originated from the Federal High Court. Why are senior lawyers and other lawyers filing such cases in the Federal High Court? Why does the Federal High Court entertain these cases when it ought not to?

Saltinny:
Tinubu and Wike are on rampage, rascality and bastardization are the order of the day, can Nigeria survive in the hands of those political Agberos and criminal who have hijacked our judiciary and Government

Saltinny:
Tinubu and Wike are on rampage, rascality and bastardization are the order of the day, can Nigeria survive in the hands of those political Agberos and criminal who have hijacked our judiciary and Government

Saltinny:
Tinubu and Wike are on rampage, rascality and bastardization are the order of the day, can Nigeria survive in the hands of those political Agberos and criminal who have hijacked our judiciary and Government

Saltinny:
Tinubu and Wike are on rampage, rascality and bastardization are the order of the day, can Nigeria survive in the hands of those political Agberos and criminal who have hijacked our judiciary and Government

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

Cherrybae:
Watch how ipob will blame APC and Tinubu for this instead of PDP.

I wonder how this people sleep at night with so much hate and bitterness in their hearts.

This is how they led Fubara to his doom supporting illegality all because they hate wike.

A shame

Saltinny:
Tinubu and Wike are on rampage, rascality and bastardization are the order of the day, can Nigeria survive in the hands of those political Agberos and criminal who have hijacked our judiciary and Government

princeade86:
Nigeria court is a joke

anonimi:
Was PDP in power in 2022 when the FEDERAL High Court ruled on something that this lawyer said they should not have ruled on

How do you sleep at night with so much hate and bitterness that make you blind during the day?

anonimi:
Was PDP in power in 2022 when the FEDERAL High Court ruled on something that this lawyer said they should not have ruled on

How do you sleep at night with so much hate and bitterness that make you blind during the day?

Saltinny:
Tinubu and Wike are on rampage, rascality and bastardization are the order of the day, can Nigeria survive in the hands of those political Agberos and criminal who have hijacked our judiciary and Government

anonimi:
Was PDP in power in 2022 when the FEDERAL High Court ruled on something that this lawyer said they should not have ruled on

How do you sleep at night with so much hate and bitterness that make you blind during the day?

PigTormentor:
Idiotic rubbish talk.
And this fool calls himself a lawyer? He might as well call himself a partisan politician.

This is so shallow IQ that you wonder how such a slowpoke can be called the president of a Bar Association.
The Supreme Court in any country is the supreme interpreter of local, state, and federal laws in any country.
So if a local court sentenced someone to prison, is this fool saying that such a person cannot approach the higher federal court for appeals?

anonimi:
Was PDP in power in 2022 when the FEDERAL High Court ruled on something that this lawyer said they should not have ruled on

How do you sleep at night with so much hate and bitterness that make you blind during the day?

Saltinny:
Tinubu and Wike are on rampage, rascality and bastardization are the order of the day, can Nigeria survive in the hands of those political Agberos and criminal who have hijacked our judiciary and Government