The Supreme Court has in a judgement delivered, Friday morning, sacked Governors Liyel Imoke, Murtala Nyako, Ibrahim Idris, Wamako and Temipre Silva of Cross River, Adamawa, Kogi, Sokoto and Bayelsa states from office.
The court in Abuja held that the tenures of the governors started to count from the time they took their oath of office after emerging winners in their respective state governorship elections in 2007 and not from the period they took their second oaths of office after emerging winners of the re-run elections when there initial elections were nullified.
The apex court held that the trial court as well as the Court of Appeal erred in law when the considered the actions taken by the respective governors before their elections were nullified by the various Election Petition Tribunals as valid on one hand while discounting the time they spent doing those valid actions from their constitutionally prescribed tenure of office.
The court held that the provisions of that section of the Constitution will stand violated if the tenure of office of the Governors is calculated from their second taking of Oath of Office and the Oath of Allegiance and stated that their tenure started counting from their first Oath of office which they all took after they were declared winners of the April 2007 elections and that they are entitled to four year terms from that date.
The court also rapped the Peoples Democratic party for attempting to abort the hearing of the matter at the court through their preliminary objections filed against all the consolidated appeals. The party had argued that the subject matter of the appeals have become academic and should be dismissed.
long live nigeria. How can someone enjoy all facilities of government including salaries, power to appropriate, then come out and say it did not count. They did not like meat but used their teeth to share it.
Why now? If there is justice, transparency in the judiciary, why wait till when the governors has finish their terms before making judgement. We are not fools.
What does the Law stipulates for those who enjoyed undeserved benefits when their elections were nullified as in the case of Legislators?
The should refund all their illegal salaries and allowances from the date were the tenure expire 29 may 2011.
The judgmen would hav com b4 the PDP primaries, now dat He has won in d primaries, what is our fait? in C/River state.
It’s a welcom dev..
Y die in office when u have ur home?
One word, Nugatory!
Thank u supreme court for that at least u make us feel dt there is justice in our nation but to complete it let them refund all they ve enjoy unlawfully
Dis judgemnt is 9 months late
Thnx court,bt let dm refund everytin in dr position dat dy hv hidenin
D jdgment of d SC on d tenure elongatn issue hs brightnd d electoral oppotunits of d oppositn figures in d affectd states. D fact dat d candidates of d PDP wld nw face d impendng electns as non-incunbents in d affectd states is indeed a thrilling dvmt.
what is the impact of the judgement now medicine after death, where is the integrity of our judicuary they rubbe peter to pay paul is a shame that one will be stealing public fund and hide under the umbrela of delay injustic
Any other law that is inconsistent with any provission of the constitution, such other law, to extent of its consistency, shall be null and void.
luk here mr juge, we are not fools ok,
Pls u pple should stop all this cos we r not fools
There is this man that stole my Blackberry Bold2 on the 23rd of January of which i have the serial number and my reciept of the phone!!! he has refused to talk with me and when i added him using a girl’s BB, he accepted and i was able to quickly download his picture from his DP picture…..please be on a look out for him, he’s a criminal.