The Supreme Court of Nigeria, will, today, Tuesday, February 18, 2020, undertake a review of its judgments on election petitions in Imo and Zamfara States respectively.
The sacked Governor of Imo State, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had approached the apex court to reverse its judgment which removed him as the elected governor of the state.
A Supreme Court panel led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, had, on January 14, 2020, sacked Ihedioha, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, as governor of Imo State and declared Hope Uzodinma, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the February 23, 2019 gubernatorial vote.
The Supreme Court would, also today, conduct a review of its judgment that annulled the victory of all APC’s candidates in the 2019 general elections in Zamfara State.
A five-man panel of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, had, on August 22, 2019, struck out the APC’s application, ruling that it was incompetent as 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.
But the party never gave up. Its lawyer, Chief Robert Clarke, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, refiled the application in November 2019.
