BY: CAJETHAN DIKE
The Imo Awareness Coalition, IAC has expressed concern why the Supreme Court does not follow it’s precedents to determine matters/cases before it.
Publicity Secretary of the IAC, Fidelis Echendu, who spoke to our reporter in Owerri, said it has observed a pattern in some high profile judgements of the Supreme Court which does not conform to it’s own precedents.
He said “We know that judgements of the Supreme Court are supposed to be landmark verdicts which should serve as a precedent for future cases and which should be a guide to our legal system
“But this is not the case as we have observed after a careful research
“It becomes worrisome with the twists and turns in some of the verdicts of the apex court.
“For instance, in 2015, in Kogi State, the Supreme Court did not allow Audu Abubakar’s Deputy, James Faleke, to inherit Late Audu’s votes even when they were on a joint ticket of the defunct ACN in the governorship election.
“Recall in 1999, the Supreme Court nullified the governorship election and ordered for a fresh poll in Bauchi State because Governor Adamu Muazu’s Deputy presented a fake certificate.
“In 2007, Celestine Omehia was sacked as Rivers State Governor but his Deputy, Tele Ikuru was retained.
“But in 2019, the same Supreme Court sacked David Lyon of the APC as Governor elect of Bayelsa State because his Deputy, presented a forged certificate” he said
” You can see it never adhered to or followed it’s precedents. And we seem not to know why it is so.
“However,we assume that it’s judgements may have to do with the perculiarity of cases before it.
” If this is so, does it it imply it can review and reverse it’s judgements?
The IAC spoke on the heels of the Supreme Court review of the appeal filed by Hon.Emeka Ihedioha asking the apex court to set aside it’s judgement which removed him as Governor of Imo State.
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