CONFLICTING COURT ORDERS: Committee Submits Report To NBA President

The three-man committee set up by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has submitted report of its findings on the cases of conflicting orders granted by courts of coordinate jurisdiction in the country.

Following the spate of conflicting orders that were obtained and granted from various courts across the country in political cases which caused confusion in the polity and also dented the image of the judiciary, the NBA President, Mr Olumide Akpata set-up a three man Committee made up of Dr. Babatunde Ajibade SAN, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee,  Mr. Oluwaseun Abimbola SAN, Chairman of the Section on Legal Practice and Dr. Monday Ubani, Chairman of the Section on Public Intetrest and Development Law.

Before setting up the Committee, Akpata had  issued a statement condemning the development. He had said it as “unfortunate and recurring trend of contradictory Court decisions and orders especially amongst courts of coordinate jurisdiction typically arising from ex-parte applications and almost always in political matters.”

According to a statement by NAB, the committee members had the mandate of making inquiries into what led to such development and provide a preliminary report to the President to know “if and where our members were involved in a manner amounting to misconduct, to  make recommendations for further action by the NBA.”

The specific cases referred to in the NBA President’s statement were those relating to the National Chairmanship crisis of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and those relating to the nomination of candidates by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for the last  gubernatorial elections in Anambra State.

The Commitee has carried out the assignment and sent its findings and recommendations to the NBA President for further action.