Constitutional lawyer and PDP Chieftain Daniel Bwala has asked the Supreme Court to use the case of the Plateau State, which sacked Governor Caleb Mutfwang to affirm superiority over the Appellate Court.<\/p>\n
Bwala stated this in an interview on Arise Television on Monday, November 27, 2023<\/p>\n
He said the authority of the Supreme Court as the final court in the land has been brought to question on the settled law on pre-election matters as determined by the Court of Appeal over the Plateau election.<\/p>\n
While noting that the Court of Appeal decided to throw out pre-election matters in deference to the authority of the apex court in election petitions brought in Benue, Ebonyi, and several other jurisdictions, he expressed wonder why the same court took jurisdiction of the issue in Plateau.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThis case of Plateau State, when it gets to the Supreme Court, would be the case of the Supreme Court versus the Court of Appeal. It has more to do with the sanctity and integrity of the Supreme Court itself<\/p>\n
\u2026because the Supreme Court will have to determine whether that judgment they delivered in the Presidential Election Tribunal is to be carried out by subordinate courts in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey made it clear that a decision by a final court is called a settled law. Once a case is not determined by the final court, it is not a settled law. But once it is determined by a final court, it is cast in stone. So, the Supreme Court will have to determine whether the Court of Appeal is above it or whether it is above the Court of Appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noting how confidence had been eroded in the judiciary by the decisions of some courts, he said, \u201cThe confidence of the people is gradually waning considering the trust they have in the judiciary. How can a court in Ebonyi, a court in Benue, and all other places obey the judgment of the Supreme Court, but in Plateau State, the Court of Appeal disobeyed the judgment of the Supreme Court regarding matters of pre-election?<\/p>\n
Before the Supreme Court, all characters of pre-election were brought, the ones that bothered on double nomination, certificate forgery, and even on how somebody emerged in a primary;<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026and the Supreme Court maintained the same position, and they spoke with vehemence. So, it will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court will speak with the same vehemence.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the days of Justice Tobi, they never failed to chastise the court below them when the court below them disobeyed the judgment they passed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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