FULL PROFILE: Meet seven justices who’ll determine Tinubu, Atiku, Obi’s fate at Supreme Court

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The Nation Newspaper FULL PROFILE: Meet seven justices who’ll determine Tinubu, Atiku, Obi's fate at Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has scheduled judgement for Thursday, October 26, in the appeals by Atiku Abubakar/the Peoples Democratic Party and Peter Obi/Labour Party against the September 6 judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court which affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the last presidential election., and the Action Alliance had lodged separate petitions before the tribunal, seeking to annul Tinubu’s victory, but only three made it to the Supreme Court.

She was appointed Higher Court Judge of Yobe State Judiciary in December 1991 making her the first Lady Judge at Yobe State Judiciary, a position she held until July 2004 when she was elevated to the Court of Appeal.Justice Saulawa was elevated to the Bench of the Court of Appeal on June 10. 2006. Remarkably, he served as a member of the Presidential Election Panel in 2011 and also as Chairman of the Presidential Election Panel that dismissed the petition that Atiku filed to challenge the election of former President Muhammadu Buhari, in 2019.After graduating from the Nigerian Law School, Justice Abubakar was called to the Bar in 1983.He was serving at the Lagos Division of the appellate court when he was elevated to the Supreme Court bench in 2020.

He obtained his first degree at the University of Calabar LLB , then BL from Nigerian Law School Lagos, and subsequently LLM from the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

 

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