Legal icon, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has warned the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdurahman AbdulRazaq, against reviewing the Supreme Court judgment on the land dispute involving Offa and Erin-Ile...
Legal icon, Chief Afe Babalola , has warned the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdurahman AbdulRazaq, against reviewing the Supreme Court judgment on the land dispute involving Offa and Erin-Ile, saying the governor lacks the powers to undertake such action.
The legal icon, who spoke, yesterday, while receiving a delegation from Erin-Ile at his office in Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti , said no individual could review the judgment of any court.The six-man delegation comprises prominent members of Frontiers Club, Erin-Ile, and other leaders, including Mr. Kolapo Usman, Muideen Bello, Ganiyu Daromosu, Adeola Ibrahim, Daromosu Azeez and Mr. Adamu.
In his remarks, the spokesman of the Erin-Ile delegation, Bello, applauded Babalola for his service in ensuring justice for the town, regretting that some powerful forces were working against the implementation of the apex court’s verdict. Also speaking at the parley, Secretary of Frontiers Club, Erin-Ile, Adeola, described the constitution of a review committee by Kwara governor on the disputed land as a desecration of the judiciary.
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