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SARAKI’S CCT TRIAL: Your incompetence disappointing, S’Court tells FG’s lawyer

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SARAKI’S CCT TRIAL: Your incompetence disappointing, S’Court tells FG’s lawyer

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was disappointing that counsel to the Federal Government, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), with his level in the legal profession could file “such an incompetent” application in the appeal against Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Jacobs had filed the application to challenge the acquittal of Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) of all the 18 charges bordering on a false assets declaration suit leveled against him by the Federal Government and the Appeal Court judgment that struck out 15 of the 18 charges.

The appellant court had after dismissing the 15 counts ordered that Saraki return to the CCT for re-trail on the three charges it did not strike out.

The Federal Government had therefore through its counsel, Jacobs, in a trinity application before the Apex Court, challenged the ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) and the Court of Appeal but failed to accompany appropriate exhibits of the two lower courts with the process.

The mistake left the Supreme Court Justice Tanko Mohammed, who led the panel of justices, disappointed with the applicant and his application.

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He said, “The court is disappointed that a high profile lawyer could file such as incompetent application knowing what the extant rules of the court are.”

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All the efforts by Jacobs to make amendment to the application initially failed as the panel of justices of the Apex Court maintained that the application was incompetent.

But, after tendering apologies and praying the court to give him another chance to file the necessary affidavits with the exhibits, Justice Mohammed granted him 24 hours to file the correct affidavits with the exhibits.

The court afterward, adjourned hearing in the appeal indefinitely holding that the counsel on both sides would be communicated on the next hearing date.

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