By Vivian Okejeme, Abuja
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has reserved ruling for March 24, 2023, in the motion brought before it by Chief Edozie Njoku asking it to correct typographical error in it’s judgement.
The Supreme Court had written a letter to Chief Edozie Njoku on January 19, 2023, in which the Court addressed him as the National Chairman of APGA.
In the letter, the court advised him to approach it by way of a motion for the regularization of the amended judgment of Justice Ukaego Mary Peter Odili on May 9, 2022.
Counsel to Njoku, Chike Onyemenam, SAN had approached the Apex court pursuant to Order 8 Rule 16 of the Supreme Court Rules.
Njoku’, through his counsel, is asking the court to use its inherent powers, to correct a typographical error and slip in the lead judgment of the court in the appeal presided over by and delivered by Justice Mary Ukaego Peter-Odili (Rtd), on October 14, 2021.
The appellant in the suit is urging the apex court to correct an accidental slip at Page 13 lines 3 – 4 of its judgment where instead of stating the name of ‘Edozie Njoku’ who was alleged to have been removed by the parties and whom the trial judge held to have been lawfully removed from his position as the validly elected National Chairman of APGA at the party Convention held at Oweriri in 2019, mistakenly inserted the name of Victor Oye whose name was never mentioned at the Trial Court.
