Cross-Section of Lawyers at the presidential Election Tribunal on Wednesday, September 11 2019.
Photo Credit: Channels TV.
The Presidential Election Tribunal on Wednesday confirmed the Qualification of Atiku's Lawyer, Livinus Uzoukwu SAN, Dismisses Application by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) seeking the disqualification of Atiku's Lawyer, Livinus Uzoukwu SAN.
The tribunal has responded to INEC's counsel, Ustaz Yunus Usman's argument that the processes endorsed by Uzoukwu were invalid because he is not a lawyer recognised by the Nigerian Judiciary.
The Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Mohammed Garba deduced that the March 18 list of counsel and witnesses and other processes filed before the tribunal are valid and competently signed by a legal practitioner whose name is on the Supreme Court of Nigeria's roll of legal practitioners.
Justice Garba in his word said "I have noted the processes, it is glaring that there is a seal of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) with the name of Levi Uzoukwu SAN on them"
Atiku also affirmed that Uzoukwu and the INEC's counsel, Yunus Usman were called together to the inner bar in 1999.
The petitioner stated that no other person that was called to Bar in 1982, bears the name Levinus Ifeanyichukwu Uzoukwu.
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