The Supreme Court has fixed Tuesday to review the judgment on election petitions in Imo and Zamfara states. Emeka Ihediaoha seeking the reversal of the January 14, 2020 judgement that sacked him while also on the same day, there will be a review on Zamfara State 2019 general elections judgment.
According to Vigil360 correspondent, notice for the hearing was served on the parties to the case last Thursday; Mr Edidiong Usungurua who is Emeka Ihediaoha lawyer has confirmed that parties to the case had been served with the notice for the Tuesday’s hearing. The respondents are Uzodinma, APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Although, a Supreme Court official told our correspondent, “Even if the respondents file and serve their replies on Monday, the applicants – Ihedioha and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party – may still ask for time to which they are entitled to file their responses to the replies of the respondents. So, there is likely to be a further adjournment of the case before the application can be finally heard.”
On that same day, Tuesday 18th of February, the Supreme Court’s Director of Information, Dr Festus Akande, stated that the court had scheduled for hearing on Tuesday All Progressives Congress’ request for review of the May 24, 2019 judgment which nullified the victory of all the party’s candidates at the 2019 general elections held in Zamfara State.
The Supreme Court had on August 22, 2019, struck out the APC’s application but it was refiled in November 2019 by the party’s lawyer, Chief Robert Clarke (SAN).
The five-man panel led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour had on August 22, 2019, unanimously struck out the application on the grounds that it was incompetent as the complete judgments of the apex court comprising all the judgments of the five members of the panel being contested by the party were not attached to the application.
Justice Rhodes-Vivour who delivered the ruling said the applicant only attached the lead judgment and failed to exhibit the consenting judgments of the four other members of the panel which gave the May 24, 2019 verdict.
“By our rules, the application is incompetent, and it is hereby struck out,” he ruled.
The apex court had in a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, delivered on May 24, 2019, declared that APC never conducted primary elections, thus had no valid candidates for the election of the general election. It held that all the votes credited to the party and its candidates in the elections were wasted. The apex court then declared the first runners-up in the 2019 general elections in the state as the winners of all the offices earlier declared to have been won by the APC and its candidates.
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