Curiously, the main question that arises from this double standard is why the Federal Government is bent on going ahead with this judicial anarchy of putting peaceful agitators to trial while at the same time negotiating with well armed rebel group to accept amnesty
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The governors want to challenge the powers of the Federal Government to make deductions from the account for fuel subsidy
Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, who read the Supreme Court judgement, said the Court of Appeal erred in its ruling as the Edo Elections Petitions Tribunal, which earlier struck out the paragraphs relating to non-qualification, was correct in doing so
The appeal filed by a former Governor of Ekiti State, Engineer Segun Oni, against the emergence of Dr. Kayode Fayemi as governor of the state was stalled on Tuesday following to the absence of the Independent National Electoral Commission when the matter came up for hearing at the Supreme Court
In the two judgments delivered by Justices Musa Datiji Mohammed and Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, they held that the two appeal cases lacked merit and subsequently dismissed them
The Change Advocacy Party and its candidate, Dr. Imoro Kubor, had gone to court to contest the suitability of Dickson standing for the election, saying the governor was not the flag bearer of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party