Besides, FG, prayed the Supreme Court for an order, stopping governors from further constituting Caretaker Committees to run the affairs of local governments as against the Constitutionally recognized and guaranteed democratic system.

The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has applied for the restoration of his bail before the Federal High Court, Abuja.

The United States Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping win to former President Donald Trump by ruling that states cannot kick him off the ballot over his actions leading up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol — bringing a swift end to a case with huge implications for the 2024 election.

It is to be hoped that the process of judicial elevations to the Supreme Court bench will become more transparent and less prone to base politics of the sort the court has recently endured; that will guarantee that replacements are both timely and fit for purpose

Aloy Ejimakor, the Special Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has disclosed that the Supreme Court in its certified true copies released affirmed that the IPOB leader did not jump bail.

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has hailed the Supreme Court judgment affirming the jail term of Farouk Lawan, the former Chairman of the then House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy.

Lawan had among other things, contended that he was not allowed to make a plea of allocutus (plea for leniency) by the trial court before it jailed him.

Dissatisfied with the outcome of the election, Umar and the PDP approached the tribunal, alleging that Aliyu and his deputy, Idris Gobir, were not eligible to contest the gubernatorial poll.

The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a five-member panel, held that the NNPP and its candidate filed an incomplete record of appeal.

He alleged that Fubara continued to sign documents as the Accountant-General of Rivers State, even after he was nominated as PDP’s governorship candidate