By Kenneth Isuwa
The Nigerian Supreme Court has recognized Chief Edozie Njoku instead of Chief Victor Oye as the suspended National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
Responding to Njoku’s letter of authentication and confirmation dated October 7, 2022, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola via the Court’s Registrar, Hajo Bello, urged the appellant to file an application seeking to correct the earlier slip in judgement.
The earlier judgement pronouncing Njoku as suspended APGA chair, was given by Justice Mary Peter Odili in SUIT NO.SC/CV/687/2021.
The CJN thus advised the complainant to file an appeal in pursuant to Order 8, Rule 16 of the Supreme Court which states that: “The Court shall not review any judgement once given and delivered by it save to correct any clerical mistake or some error arising from any accidental slip or omission, or to vary the judgement or order, so as to give effects to its meaning or intention.
“A judgement or order shall not be varied when it correctly represents what the Court decided nor shall the operative and substantive part of it be varied and a different form substituted.”