Meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s Director of Information, Dr Festus Akande, also informed our correspondent 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.

Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), who is the lawyer to the Kabir Marafa-led faction of the APC in the state, and whose case was upheld in the contested judgment also confirmed the Tuesday’s hearing.

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 general elections 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 general elections in the state as the winners of all the offices earlier declared to have been won by the APC and its candidates.

The APC had been declared the winner of the governorship governorship election, as well as the entire three senatorial seats, seven House of Representatives seats and the 24 House of Assembly seats, contested for in the February 23 and March 11, 2019 general elections in the state.

With the governorship and deputy governorship seats which the party had won in the elections, the APC had won all the 36 elective offices available in the state.

The apex court retrieved the victories recorded the APC, adjudged not to have fielded valid candidates for the said election, and gave them to the second runners-up in the polls.

But the APC, through its counsel, Robert Clarke (SAN), filed an application on June 17, 2019, asking the Supreme Court to “review, amend, correct and/or set aside the consequential orders” contained in the May 24, 2019 judgment of the apex court.

https://punchng.com/scourt-fixes-tuesday-for-imo-zamfara-judgments-review/

And extraordinary confusion continues. Tuesday got to be a very great day. My only prayer is that the wise men and women in the apex court should expertise justice in the case of David Lyon, how can someone throw away the baby and bathwater just because the baby pop inside?

Even God in his infinite grace has made provision to separate the chaff from the seed on the last day rather than destroying everything on the account of wickedness.

seasons of reviews but what about that of rivers state

What is all this review nonsense? When did this bullshit started?

I hope it would not now become a normal thing for supreme court to judge its case twice.. or better still create another court to supersede supreme court...

Okay

Ndi Ara
They keep chasing shadow's. What has all these added to the life of a common man. Stupid country with stupid leader's.

Nigeria is a joke.

DonFreshmoney:
What is all this review nonsense? When did this bullshit started?

I hope it would not now become a normal thing for supreme court to judge its case twice.. or better still create another court to supersede supreme court...

I'm beginning to think we need a court higher than Supreme Court..

Naija

Supreme Court of supreme drama.

The Supreme Court has become a circus lately.

Tuesday is surely a highly anticipated date for an enhanced show of shame and rape on democracy.

Should any of the judgements get an overturn, then the judiciary would suffer an incurable self inflicted wound till thy kingdom come.

It's going to be a mere ceremony to affirm what has been decided.

Okkk

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What's with all this forking reviews?


Eye-Neck is a JOKE!




Forking CornTree.

Blackeurop:
Nigeria is a joke.

No.

Most of these problems arise because most Nigerians don't want the electoral.process to be free and fair.

Until Nigerians change, you cannot expect the Supreme Court to change.

What is there to review?

Supreme court and their crazed verdict.

Nigeria is its worst state of confusion since the civil war

Zamfara, Bayelsa are.both strange cases, while Imo is a different class of outright weird.

I don't know what precedent the SC is setting, everyone is just too confused.

We shall wait to see the outcome.

nawao supreme court don they make everything look like joke what's their problem?

Throwing away all......loading



Please when will they review Omehia's case ooooo

AMOTEKUN2023:
Nigeria is its worst state of confusion since the civil war

You weren't around for the 1980s and even the first republic

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It will be sadden if all these imperfections of the supreme Court eventually leads to another coup. Things were not this worst before General M. B and cohort took over in 1983 thru a military coup

Chai!!!!

Imagine how they have succeeded in Degrading, Rubbishing and Demystifying The Supreme Court of Nigeria.

Blackeurop:
Nigeria is a joke.

brother the tire meoooo

If care is not taken, the Supreme Court may not be the final arbiter any longer.

With this trend, so many other cases will be 'exhumed' for review and the drama will be unending.

Maybe we should go back to the time when cases are settled by the Council of Elders under the Acacia tree, in the evening, at the market square.

NyenwePHC:

And extraordinary confusion continues. Tuesday got to be a very great day. My only prayer is that the wise men and women in the apex court should expertise justice in the case of David Lyon, how can someone throw away the baby and bathwater just because the baby pop inside?

Even God in his infinite grace has made provision to separate the chaff from the seed on the last day rather than destroying everything on the account of wickedness.

you will have to change the Constitution first to achieve your desire

Review should be on special cases that judgment was passed via technicalities. I hope this review shouldn't find its way to be a norm in Supreme Court judgment. This would be where democracy would be maltreated, wounded and buried.

Nigeria is gone forever.
All this happening under Buhari incompetent administration