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| Justice Tanko Muhammad |
The Supreme
Court on Monday in Abuja suspended the hearing of the governorship appeals from
six states of the Federation.
The Chief
Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, gave the order following the
inability of the security operatives to control the crowd and the noise level
in the court.
Justice
Muhammad had led a seven-man panel of justices hearing the appeals from the
governorship elections in Imo, Bauchi, Sokoto, Kano, Plateau and Benue States.
But the
court rose some minutes after the hearing commenced due to the crowd and the
noise level in the court.
As part of
efforts to decongest the court, the CJN directed counsels representing the
parties not to appear with more than five lawyers.
He, however,
granted the parties in the case to witness the proceedings and until that was
done, Justice Muhammad ordered that the hearing be put on hold.
Thereafter,
politicians who were not parties in any of the appeals were asked to leave the
courtroom as the police deploy a dog to assist in the decongestion process.
After
carrying out the directive of the CJN to decongest the courtroom, the court
resumed proceedings.
The appeals
were brought before the court by various aggrieved candidates in the March 9
polls in the affected states.
The apex
court is hearing the appeals filed by the governorship candidates 10 months
after the elections held in the affected states.
The
governors returned elected by the independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) in the states are Emeka Ihedioha (Imo), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Aminu
Tambuwal (Sokoto), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Simon Lalong (Plateau), and Samuel
Ortom (Benue).
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