Crisis seems to be brewing in the newly constituted Supreme Court Presidential Election Petition Panel as three more judges, Justices Musa Dattijo Muhammad, I.N. Saulawa and Helen M. Ogunwumiju have recused themselves from the appointment.
Initially, the list of seven members of the panel to sit on the appeals filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Mr Peter Gregory Obi, include Justices Musa Dattijo Muhammad, Uwani Musa Abba Aji, Lawal Garba, Helen M. Ogunwumiju, I.N. Saulawa, Tijjani Abubakar and Emmanuel Agim,
However, Justice Dattijo has reportedly recused himself on the pretext that he is retiring on Monday next week.
Justice Saulawa followed suit and pulled himself from the panel for some undisclosed reasons, while Justice Ogunwunmiju also recused herself for reasons best known to her.
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With the latest development, it means that five out the eleven Justices in the Supreme Court of Nigeria have pulled out or recused themselves.
The five Justices are as follows:
- Ariwola,
- Kekere Ekun,
- Saulawa,
- Ogunwunmiju, and,
- Datijo.
Meanwhile, according to the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as ammended), seven Justices are needed for the PEPT appeal.
Consequently, according to information obtained by News Band from a source who pleaded anonymity, the Supreme Court Justices Panel for the PEPT appeal will be reconstituted tomorrow.
In the meantime, a source close to the apex body of the country’s judiciary have suspected that something may be after all be fishy and seriously haunting and scaring the highest body of legal luminaries.
– NewsBand news
The truth is, the Nigerian Judiciary would live with whatever decisions they would be making shortly… The question is…. Did Tinubu win the 2023 presidential election?
Did Justice Tsammani and Crew tried at least to establish whom Nigerians voted for?
Is technicalities the basis to ascertain whom Nigerians could trust to rule them?
Can one force himself to rule over 200M people?
With all damming evidences and dirty baggages hanging on Tinubu’s neck?… Would the Justices pretend they don’t care about the image of Nigeria 🇳🇬?
What precedence would they be taking after this?
Certificate forgery is no longer a crime or drug issues?
More questions abound…
Happy Sunday Nigerians..!!!
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