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Supreme Court rules Yar’Adua’s Presidency October 23

champion-newspapers.com Supreme yesterday warned all the parties in the petition brought by former Head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the Court of Appeal’s decision that upheld the election of President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, not to bring any motion that would stop definite hearing of the appeal on October 23.

The seven-man panel of the apex court headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria [CJN], Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, fixed the date after disposing all pending motions before the court which included motion for extension of time as earlier prayed by Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC].

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