Kano: APC speaks on controversy over Appeal Court CTC
The All Progressives Congress has offered its own ‘perspective’ on the discrepancies in the certified copy of the Appeal Court ruling on the Kano governorship dispute.
The court had ousted incumbent Governor Abba Yussuf and asked that APC’s Nasiru Gawuna be installed in his stead.
However, a portion of the judgment’s certified copy appeared to show that case was decided in Yussuf’s favour.
In its reaction to the controversy the discrepancies have generated, the Court of Appeal said it was a mere clerical error.
Weighing in on the issue, Prof Abdulkareem Kana, the National Legal Adviser of the APC, echoed the explanation of the appellate court.
He said, “Those of us who are lawyers know that typographic errors often occur in certified true copies of court judgments.”
He said for the matter not a political issue, “there wouldn’t have been confusion.”
Kana said such “typographic mistakes will be seen in judgments and being lawyers, we are used to a situation like this.”
He added, “All that is required is to merely correct the mistake. The most important thing is a judgment that was read in open court.
“In a situation like this, what we lawyers do is a community reading of the entire judgment to see the exact finding of the court. For anyone who reads the judgment from page one all the way to page 72, you will agree most certainly that assertion will not hold water instead of upholding the judgment of the lower court, it sets it aside.
“I don’t think the explanation needs to come from us. But for us, we can only render our own perspective as a party to the entire uproar that is going on.
“But as to the explanation of where the error happened in the cause of typing the judgment, it is for the court to provide an explanation.
“I am sure the court would have done that by now by taking necessary measures to issue a fresh CTC with respect to an appropriate judgment of the court.”
