A five-man Reconciliation Committee which was set
up by the National Judicial Council to broker peace between the Chief
Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu and the President of
the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Salami, has submitted its report.
The committee has Justices B.O. Babalakin, A.B. Wali, Anthony Iguh and Emmanuel Ayoola, all retired Justices of the Supreme Court as members.
The committee which also has a former Appeal Court President, Mustapha Akanbi, cleared Salami of any wrong doing in the allegations against him.
The Chairman of the panel, Justice Babalakin tendered the findings while testifying before a five-man probe panel set up by the NJC to investigate the allegations and counter allegation between the feuding judicial heavyweights.
The probe panel headed by a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umar Abdullahi, has the former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, Justice D. O. Edozie, Justice M. E. Akpiroroh and Hajiya Rakiya Ibrahim, as members.
The panel, in its findings, concluded that the CJN had no power to interfere in any proceedings in any court as was done in Sokoto State Governorship Election Petitions Appeal.
The CJN had through a letter stopped the Sokoto State Governorship Election Petitions Panel from delivering its judgement in an appeal filed by Alhaji Muhammadu Dingyadi of the Democratic People Party against the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko.
It was learnt that Justice Akanbi (retd) described the Abdullahi’s committee as a waste of time and resources with no benefit to the nation.
Akanbi also objected to the presence of Justice Emmanuel Ayoola on the Umaru Abdullahi panel while testifying before the panel in Abuja.
Since Ayoola sat on the Reconciliatory Committee and was part of the decision taken, Akanbi felt he should not be part of the probe panel.
Salami alleged that Katsina-Alu had earlier asked him to compromise the Court of Appeal’s verdict on the protracted Sokoto governorship legal tussle by either disbanding the original panel, which he [Katsina-Alu] believed was about to give a verdict against the governor or to direct the panel to give judgment in the governor’s favour.
By Friday Olokor, Abuja Courtesy Of: Punch
The committee has Justices B.O. Babalakin, A.B. Wali, Anthony Iguh and Emmanuel Ayoola, all retired Justices of the Supreme Court as members.
The committee which also has a former Appeal Court President, Mustapha Akanbi, cleared Salami of any wrong doing in the allegations against him.
The Chairman of the panel, Justice Babalakin tendered the findings while testifying before a five-man probe panel set up by the NJC to investigate the allegations and counter allegation between the feuding judicial heavyweights.
The probe panel headed by a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umar Abdullahi, has the former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, Justice D. O. Edozie, Justice M. E. Akpiroroh and Hajiya Rakiya Ibrahim, as members.
The panel, in its findings, concluded that the CJN had no power to interfere in any proceedings in any court as was done in Sokoto State Governorship Election Petitions Appeal.
The CJN had through a letter stopped the Sokoto State Governorship Election Petitions Panel from delivering its judgement in an appeal filed by Alhaji Muhammadu Dingyadi of the Democratic People Party against the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko.
It was learnt that Justice Akanbi (retd) described the Abdullahi’s committee as a waste of time and resources with no benefit to the nation.
Akanbi also objected to the presence of Justice Emmanuel Ayoola on the Umaru Abdullahi panel while testifying before the panel in Abuja.
Since Ayoola sat on the Reconciliatory Committee and was part of the decision taken, Akanbi felt he should not be part of the probe panel.
Salami alleged that Katsina-Alu had earlier asked him to compromise the Court of Appeal’s verdict on the protracted Sokoto governorship legal tussle by either disbanding the original panel, which he [Katsina-Alu] believed was about to give a verdict against the governor or to direct the panel to give judgment in the governor’s favour.
By Friday Olokor, Abuja Courtesy Of: Punch
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