The Supreme Court’s dismissal of the application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), asking it for a consequential order is a green light for anti-Wada elements to intensify their legal battles.
A seven-member panel chaired by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Dahiru Musdapher said it has become functus officio and lacked the power to make pronouncement on the case again.
The PDP counsel, Chris Uche (SAN) had asked the court to make a consequential order, declaring Captain Idris Wada as governor in waiting as at the time the judgment on tenure elongation of five governors was delivered
The controversy generated by the Supreme Court judgement that ousted former Governor Ibrahim Idris and 4 others is still raging on.
Some of the litigants want the courts to declare the primaries that produced the incumbent governor Idris Wada null and void. This is the hope of the winner of the January 9th 2011 PDP primaries, Alhaji Jubrin Isah Echocho.
Other litigants want the courts to cancel the both the entire processes that produced Echocho, Wada, Audu and others and order for fresh party primaries and election. This group hinge their claims on the January 27th Supreme Court judgement that declared that the tenure of the affected governors had expired since May 28, 2011 and everything done after that date is a nullity.
