Former A-Court President worries over conflicting judgments
(Nigeria) Former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Umaru Abdullahi (retd), has said that there was need for the National Judicial Council, NJC, to investigate reoccurring conflicting court judgments in the country.
Abdullahi, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, said
that conflicting judgments and activities of corrupt politicians had undermined
Nigeria’s judicial system.
He decried politicians’ attitude of going to another court
to get a new judgment instead of appealing the earlier one if they were not
satisfied with it.
``NJC must wade in to address these contradictions;
investigate if there is any corrupt undertone in these judgments; arrest the
indiscipline and recklessness by some judges. Politicians should learn to
appeal unfavourable court decisions rather than making unlawful utterances and
fomenting crisis.
``Politicians are desperate to win their cases; rather than
appeal a particular unfavourable judgment, they approach a similar court with
another version of the case in an attempt to mislead the judge resulting in
conflicting judgements,’’ he said.
He made references to the recent judgments on Abia governorship
tussle and that of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s leadership crisis.
Abdullahi advised aggrieved parties to petition the NJC if
they were not satisfied or felt the need for clarification in the face of
conflicting judgments.
He said that NJC acted based on petitions before it.
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