The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross
River State has adjourned the judgement in the appeal filed by the
Akwa-Ibom State Action Congress of Nigeria governorship candidate, Chief
James Udoedeghe, against Governor Godswill Akpabio, of the Peoples
Democratic Party.
The judgment, which was expected to be delivered on Tuesday, was adjourned to Thursday, September 15.
Giving reasons for the adjournment through Justice Massoud Abdulraham Oredola in the sitting that lasted about 20 minutes on Tuesday, the judges said some of the briefs were filed by the parties just the previous day and also that some of the authorities cited were not reported.
The judges, however, assured that the judgment would not lapse.
Reacting to the development, counsel for Akpabio, Chief Duro Adeyele, SAN, said, “The reasons given are plausible reasons. Some of the papers containing our argument, briefs were not made available to some of the justices, possibly due to mix up of the registry. But the good court is still within the time set down for such to be done by the constitution. And so there is no fear of the judgment lapsing.”
By Mudiaga Affe, Calabar Courtesy Of: Punch
The judgment, which was expected to be delivered on Tuesday, was adjourned to Thursday, September 15.
Giving reasons for the adjournment through Justice Massoud Abdulraham Oredola in the sitting that lasted about 20 minutes on Tuesday, the judges said some of the briefs were filed by the parties just the previous day and also that some of the authorities cited were not reported.
The judges, however, assured that the judgment would not lapse.
Reacting to the development, counsel for Akpabio, Chief Duro Adeyele, SAN, said, “The reasons given are plausible reasons. Some of the papers containing our argument, briefs were not made available to some of the justices, possibly due to mix up of the registry. But the good court is still within the time set down for such to be done by the constitution. And so there is no fear of the judgment lapsing.”
By Mudiaga Affe, Calabar Courtesy Of: Punch
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