Ekiti
State Governor Kayode Fayemi has asked the Chief Justice of Nigeria,
Justice Dahiru Musdapher, to disband the panel of justices set up by the
acting President of the Court of Appeal to review the October 15, 2010
judgment sacking Mr. Segun Oni as governor of the state.
Fayemi’s lawyer, Mr. Abdulhameed Umar, said
the planned review of the case already adjudicated by the court was
strange to the law.
Oni was sacked by Justice Ayo Salami-led
panel of the Court of Appeal in Ilorin after the lower tribunal declared
Oni the winnner of the disputed rerun supplementary governorship poll
on April 25, 2009.
Oni, who accepted the verdict in 2010, five
months later approached the Ado-Ekiti Division of the Appeal Court on
March 29, 2011, asking the court to set aside the judgment of the Salami
panel.
The court however adjourned indefinitely on
the grounds that the application was premature because a similar
complaint was pending with the Nigeria Judicial Council.
A new panel constituted by the acting
President of the Court of Appeal will hear the application to review the
judgment of the Court of Appeal on Monday.
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