Al-Mustapha, a former Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha, and Shofolahan, a former aide to late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, were sentenced to death on January 30, 2012 by Justice Mojisola Dada of a Lagos High Court
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The ruling, on Friday, pronounced the faction headed by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the bonafide PDP
In the lead judgments, one of which was read by Justice Mary Odili, the Supreme Court said the petitioners lacked grounds for seeking the court’s intervention in pronouncing Mimiko not duly elected
Akeredolu, in his appeal before the court, told the court that there were multiple registration by members of the Labour Party, the platform of the governor
The Court of Appeal in Lagos had on July 12 freed the duo of the murder charge in two separate judgments
Emphasizing that God threw up Governor Uduaghan to help extricate the people from the shackles of poverty, enslavement and oppression, the leaders urged Dr. Uduaghan to keep up the good works, irrespective of the antics of some detractors who peddle false stories about the state
In a statement issued in Asaba, the state capital, by the Director of Communications of the People’s Movement, Ibifuro Tatua, the leaders lauded the judiciary for not yielding to calculated lies about elections in the state, describing the past three governorship elections as the most transparent ever seen in the history of the state
Justice Ngwuta, who relied on the three elements of the offence of murder under Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code, said it was proven beyond reasonable doubt that the victim died
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
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