By Henry Ojelu
Mr Oyewole Gboyega, SAN, is the former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Ekiti State. In this interview, he spoke on many national issues including local government autonomy, death penalty, Land Use Act amongst others.
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Does the law support moving Tribunal sitting out of jurisdiction?
In my view, the movement of an election tribunal to another jurisdiction or location is regular and proper upon due inauguration of the Tribunal by the appropriate authority. This is in line with the decision of the Supreme Court in Wike’s case, which has been followed in several other cases, where the governorship election tribunal was moved from Rivers State to Abuja citing security reasons. The law provides that each state of the federation shall have one or more election tribunals but the location/venue was not considered in the statute. The provision of Section 285 (2) 1999 Constitution leaves this issue open. It is a fact that election and…