There was another interesting outing at the Supreme Court of Nigeria on Ihedioha’s appeal to his losses in the lower courts as our elder and the Senior of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ahamba was caught in the cross fire when having prayed the court he was going to correct his error in serving his respondents the notice of court hearing.
In that drama, Chief Ahamba was found to have taken his chosen path of not serving personally his respondents but decided to do so by proxy in the office of the All Progressives Congress in Owerri.
In a disagreement, the lead Counsel of Governor Okorocha argued that the reason while the lower court appeal dismissed the appellants case was because it lacked in merit as the Foundational procedures were fraught with non-service of non – service of the appeal, no- notice of court hearing as the grounds of such appeal were unknown to the same respondents he listed in his appeal.
Arguing further, Chief Niyi reminded his learned colleague of his error in serving notices even to PDP members. He now queried, “can an appellant appeal against himself.” This was tacitly described as aberration in law.
In his submission, Ahamba argued that applied from the withdrawal of the respondents he failed in personally serving erroneously even having been ordered by the Supreme Court to so do. This led to his last submission where he prayed the Court to overlook every other respondent with exception of 1st and 37 th respondents.
Beyond issues on trial, there were comic reliefs intermittently coming from Chief Ahamba by not addressing the Hon. Justices appropriately.
However, Chief Niyi and other respondents present adopted the cross appeal of and adopted by Chief Niyi Akintola praying court to dismiss the appellants appeal for lack of merits and other issues copiously presented.
In its pronouncement, the Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria led by Hon. Justice Fabiyi adjourned till October 29, 2015 so as to meeting their 60 days deadline on November 2, 2015.