Ondo guber poll: S-Court to hear suit against Mimiko today By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA — The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, has ordered the Supreme Court to commence hearing on appeals seeking to sack Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State today. The apex court, which is currently on vacation, had earlier fixed September 24 to begin hearing on four separate appeals challenging the Appeal Court judgment that okayed Governor Mimiko as the validly elected candidate in the August 27 gubernatorial election in Ondo State. However, sequel to protests from the appellants who maintained that September 24 would fall outside the mandatory 60 days prescribed by the constitution for the determination of election petition appeals, the CJN, decided to bring forward the hearing date. Specifically, the pending appeals were filed by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as well as a cross appeal that was entered before the court by Mimiko and his Labour Party, LP. It will be recalled that an appellate court in Akure, the Ondo Capital, had few weeks ago, upheld the verdict of the Ondo State governorship election petition tribunal in which Mimiko’s victory was upheld.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:21:19 +0000
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