According to Chidi Odinkalu, a former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, the misunderstanding in the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the Appeal Court’s ruling on the Kano State governorship election issue is not the result of a typing error.
This was said by Odinkalu in an interview with Politics Today on Channels TV.
As previously reported by Anaedoonline.ng, the Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of Abba Kabir Yusuf, the state governor and member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), by the governorship elections petitions tribunal in Kano on Friday.
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But the final paragraphs of the Appeal Court’s CTC opinion, which were found on Page 67, overturned the tribunal court’s decision to fire the governor.
After acknowledging that it was a clerical error, the appeal court recalled the CTC, but Odinkalu stated he did not trust the story.
He said, “The confusion is not a clerical error. That was the old law that I was taught. No judiciary that is credible will produce this kind of judgment and certify it. This is not coming from a customary court, it is not coming from an area court, it is not even coming from a high court.
“This is the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, the second highest court in the country. Any lawyer worth their onions should be scandalised by it irrespective of whatever side you take.”
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