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The Supreme Court will on Thursday, settle the legal dispute that has been trailing the presidential election that was held in the country on February 25.
Consequently, the surviving appeals were the ones filed by a former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as well as his counterpart in the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi. He has over the years served in different capacities and bodies, including; Member, Election Petition Tribunal, Kano, 1998, Member, Governorship and Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal, Ondo State, 2003, Member, Governorship and Legislative Houses Election Petition Tribunal No.2 Delta State, 2003.Justice Okoro was elevated to the Supreme Court on November 15, 2013.Justice Abba Aji is the most ranking female jurist on the apex court bench and the only female of the panel.
She was appointed Higher Court Judge of Yobe State Judiciary in December 1991 making her the first Lady Judge at Yobe State Judiciary, a position she held until July 2004 when she was elevated to the Court of Appeal. In 2004, Justice Garba was elevated to the Court of Appeal and served at various times as the Presiding Justice at Abuja, Calabar, Port Harcourt and Lagos Divisions of the Court from 2010-2020.
He began his career with the Ministry of Justice, Kaduna State in August 1982 as a Pupil State Counsel Secretary, Law Officers Committee of the then 10 Northern States; a Visiting Lecturer, College of Legal and Extra-Mural Studies, Katsina Polytechnic, Katsina 1982-83 After he was called to Bar, Jauro worked with the Ministry of Justice in 1983 and was promoted as Director of Public Prosecution.
He was serving at the Lagos Division of the appellate the court when he was elevated to the Supreme Court bench in 2020.Justice Emmanuel Agim was born on April 26, 1960, in Obudu, Cross Rivers State.
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