By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Supreme Court has in a judgement delivered, Friday morning, sacked the five governors of Bayelsa, Adamawa, Sokoto, C/River, Kogi state from their respective office.
In a unanimous decision, a 7-man panel of justices of the apex court, maintained that the affected governors exceeded the 4-years tenure that was specifically stipulated in section 180(2) of the 1999 constitution.
Counsequently, it made an order setting aside the two lower courts judgments that ab-initio elongated the tenure of the governors till this year.
The affected governors areTimipre Sylva(Bayelsa) Magatakada Wamakko,(Sokoto) Liyel Imoke(C/River) Ibrahim Idris(Kogi) and Murtala Nyako( Adamawa)
The Supreme Court has in a judgement delivered, Friday morning, sacked the five governors of Bayelsa, Adamawa, Sokoto, C/River, Kogi state from their respective office.
In a unanimous decision, a 7-man panel of justices of the apex court, maintained that the affected governors exceeded the 4-years tenure that was specifically stipulated in section 180(2) of the 1999 constitution.
Counsequently, it made an order setting aside the two lower courts judgments that ab-initio elongated the tenure of the governors till this year.
The affected governors areTimipre Sylva(Bayelsa) Magatakada Wamakko,(Sokoto) Liyel Imoke(C/River) Ibrahim Idris(Kogi) and Murtala Nyako( Adamawa)
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/breaking-news-supreme-court-sacks-bayelsa-adamawa-sokoto-criver-kogi-govs/
Supreme court judgement sacking the five Governors is not enough, they should be arrested and jail. Judiciary should maintain its readiness to uphold justice so that true democracy may bear a lasting root in Nigeria and for Nigerians.
ReplyDelete9ja my beloved country! The land where strange happenings occur every day. Please, can somebody tell me the logic of this delayed judgement? Can somebody also tell me when will the tenure of the governors that will emerge from the elections which will be predicated upon this ruling commence - May 2011 or May 2012? When will this haphazard, comatose and epileptic system be sanitized and by who??? All bunch of confusion everywhere which is of course the hallmark of a failed system and by extension a failed state. May GOD save this country.
ReplyDeleteWhy did the supreme court judgement come now that election is set to be held in the states affected. I think there is more than what we read in the newspapers. Tell them to stop fulling Nigerians.
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