The Nation Newspaper SAN: Supreme Court should determine Assembly election petitions
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria , Mr Olalekan Ojo, has called for an amendment to the law empowering the Court of Appeal as the final determiner of House of Assembly election petitions.
Ojo, who described the case of the PDP lawmakers as a ‘remediless injury’, said the situation had called for the need to empower the Supreme Court to be the final determiner of House of Assembly election petitions.“It is better not to allow the Court of Appeal to be the final court to determine House of Assembly election petitions because of situations like this.
“Their case is like appealing against the pronouncement of the Supreme Court; it cannot stand,” he said. “It is obvious that the judgment of the Appeal Court on the House of Assembly members is wrong, but unfortunately, nobody has any solution to it.
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