S’Court Verdict: As AGF, APC Stakeholders Disagree With Keyamo’s Interpretation

Counsel to APC, Chief Niyi Akintola , told journalists at the party headquarters in Abuja that there was nowhere in judgement of the majority where the efficacy of the office of the national caretaker committee chairman was questioned. He said it was surprising that people were giving much attention to the judgement of the minority, which he said was of no value.

Weighing in, the deputy president of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, said no law bars a governor from carrying out party assignment. In his legal opinion on the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Jegede versus Akeredolu case, he expressed surprise that the judgment that dismissed the appeal initiated by Jegede is been misinterpreted by mischief makers for obviously nefarious intentions.

Noting that it was necessary to proceed to clear the gross misconception of the provisions of section 183 of the 1999 Constitution raised some salient questions. He said, “From the explicit provision of Section 183 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 , it is absolutely impossible and untenable to argue that the provisions of Section 183 bars a Governor from being a Chairman or member of a Caretaker Committee set up by his or her political party.

‘’To further show the meritless nature of the position under review, assuming without conceding that the argument is right, then, it will equally be contrary to the spirit and intent of Section 183 of the Constitution for any sitting Governor to be Chairman of say the Governors’ Forum, Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, or any other similar body. This, in my humble view, can definitely not be the intention of the drafters of the 1999 Constitution.

“With respect to the judgment of the supreme Court it does not apply here and cannot be used to sustain argument against the caretaker committee or Gov. Mai. Buni. That’s why Festus Keyamo scored an own goal.”

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