The adjournment followed an announcement by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, leading a seven-man bench, that one of the members of the panel was ill.The adjournment cut short the hearing of the first appeal already being taken. The appeal being heard was on the governorship contest in Kano State.
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s lawyer, Joseph Daudu , was to adopt his briefs of argument, when the CJN made the announcement. The panel was expected to resume sitting but after about an hour, the Director of Litigation of the Supreme Court, Mr Ibrahim Gold, declared that all the appeals had been adjourned till Tuesday.
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