Osipitan also stated that a decentralised Supreme Court could only reduce the number of people going to Abuja for their cases for it would still be the same Supreme Court and the same number of people but now divided among the geopolitical zone.
He stated that before now there were matters that didn’t go beyond appeal court, saying that the Supreme Court ordinarily should be a policy and constitutional court saddled only with constitutional matters as it’s in other civilised climes. He further said that the unusual jurisdiction of the Supreme Court when one looked at the constitution; it had to do with complaints between the state and the Federal Government.
“I don’t think the solution to the problem is decentralising the Supreme Court. We must have a Supreme Court, yes, but the only thing there is what you then consider as decentralisation will actually be the appeal court. “The Supreme Court enjoys what we refer to as original jurisdiction that is exclusive to it. We also have what we refer to as appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. This can be found in Section 233. Appeals that arise from decisions from the appeal courts to the Supreme Court but one clear thing there is the appeals must be from issues bordering on either civil or criminal claims.
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