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Presidential Election Petition Tribunal: Longest judgement in Nigeria, by Richard Akinnola
LONGEST JUDGEMENT IN NIGERIA
Today’s Presidential election tribunal judgment is the longest in the history of Nigeria. It started at about 9.25 am and it’s still on as at the time of this post at 9.35 pm.
The first record was that of the treasonable felony judgment of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and others on September 11, 1962 by Justice George Sodeinde Sowemimo of Lagos High court. It lasted from 9.30am to 5.30 pm (eight hours).
The record was broken on June 16, 2021 when a Lagos High court sentenced a former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche to six years imprisonment for stealing N25.7 billion belonging to the bank.
It was a 12-hour judgment by Justice Lateefat Okunnu which began at 9.12am and ended at 9.21pm.
However, the only difference in respect of today’s judgment and the previous ones is that this is an appellate judgment involving five justices in respect of three different cases.
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