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Senior lawyers have raised concerns that ongoing cases at the Supreme Court will suffer delay during the 60-day period that the presidential election appeal will last.
Following their failure to upturn the February 25 election victory of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party (LP) counterpart Peter Obi are set to appeal their judicial losses.
They have tomorrow as deadline, 14 days after the September 6 judgment by the PEPC to file their appeals at the Supreme Court.
A panel of seven justices of the Supreme Court will be constituted to hear the appeal, with this, there will be only four justices available to handle cases at the apex court because those engaged in the petitions will be busy with the matter for the 60-day constitutionally prescribed period.
The four justices will be inadequate to function because a minimum of five justices are required to seat on cases at the apex court.
Nigeria Judiciary expert with the U.S. NIGERIA LAW GROUP, in Washington, United States, Emmanuel Ogebe, said: “The Nigerian Supreme Court should have a full complement of 21 justices minimum in an election year. This is a no-brainer.”
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