▪︎Clarifies that Abdul Aboki not mentioned in petition
The Supreme Court of Nigeria said Justice Abdu Aboki was not mentioned in a petition allegedly written by the acting chairman of the All Progressives Congress and Governor of Yobe State, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni against three Justices of Supreme Court.
In a statement, the apex court’s Director of Press and Information, Dr Akande Festus, said even though Justice Abdu Aboki was on the panel of five Justices hearing the appeal that resulted from the Imo North Senatorial District Bye- Election conducted on 5th October, 2020, his name was never mentioned in the petition.
He said the information in circulation was not only wrong but also equally misleading.
Read him: “It is pertinent to state that even though the acting chairman of the APC, Alhaji Mai-Mala Buni has issued a disclaimer of the malicious and baseless petition, there is still need to keep records straight and also to admonish litigants, particularly politicians on the need to be guided by good conscience and decency in all their conducts especially when a case is before a Court of competent jurisdiction, as such unguided disposition could send out the wrong signals.”
He further stated that “the Honourable Justices of the Supreme Court who have always been working assiduously to promote the rule of law, impartial and seamless dispensation of justice don’t deserve such orchestrated mudslinging, to say the least.”
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