Election Petition Tribunal not battleground – Justice Adeniyi
The chairman of the Infamous River Express Elections Petition Tribunal, Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, has cautioned aggrieved politicians that the tribunal isn’t very any longer a battleground.
The panel used to be to agree with had its inaugural sitting early final week but may well per chance well well no longer preserve since the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, launched into industrial action and locked all courts within the direct.
At the inaugural sitting in Calabar this day of the three-man panel (which has Justice Z. U. Modibbo and Justice Eva Okoronkwo), Adeniyi said they’ll discharge their tasks to essentially the most efficient of their abilities and that they’ll be honest to all petitioners.
He said: “The tribunal isn’t very any longer a battleground, and we shall proceed seamlessly and proper away. We are going to discharge our tasks to essentially the most efficient of our abilities and consistently dwell unsleeping of the oath we took. We scream all litigants of a supreme trial, and we isn’t very any longer going to entertain any form of interference from any quarter and shall anecdote any try to intervene with the tribunal to the safety companies.”
Seeking the cooperation of the bar and bench within the discharge of their project, he stressed out that they get no longer agree with the gorgeous of time.
A member of the interior bar, Murtala Abdul-Rasheed, SAN, who also spoke, said the Nigerian public and the global community can be taking a admire at how the tribunal carries out its project.
In his comment, the chairman of the Calabar department of the Nigerian Bar Association, Attah Ochinke, pledged that his participants would display legitimate candour one day of the lawsuits.
“We are going to take our jobs seriously and can simply scramble away no stone unturned in serving to the tribunal near at a supreme decision,” he said.
