Supreme Court overrules Atiku, PDP’s request

The Supreme Court on Wednesday has overruled Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar request that their seven interlocutory appeals should be heard after the main one must have been argued.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, who leads the seven-man panel of the apex court, in the lead ruling consented to by other members, overruled Atiku and his party’s request that their seven interlocutory appeals should be heard after the main one must have been argued.

The seven-man panel held that it would be unnecessary to hear the interlocutory appeals when a judgment on the main appeal marked SC.1211/2019 would cover the field.