I Will Not Allow Any Junior In My Chambers, Even One Or Two Years Old To Carry Such A Brief To Go And Argue In Court – Clarke Roasts Atiku, Obi’s Lawyers (VIDEO)

I Will Not Allow Any Junior In My Chambers, Even One Or Two Years Old To Carry Such A Brief To Go And Argue In Court – Clarke Roasts Atiku, Obi’s Lawyers (VIDEO)

“I am not saying they (Atiku, Obi’s lawyers) fumbled the case; what I am saying is that they have not displayed a good sense of legal practice,” the legal luminary said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.

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The senior lawyer’s remarks followed the Supreme Court’s affirmation of Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 presidential election. The apex court rejected the appeals lodged by Atiku, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as well as his Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Obi.

A panel of seven judges dismissed the opposition’s appeals, which included allegations of fraud, violations of electoral laws, and Tinubu’s purported ineligibility to run for president.

The apex court rejected all grounds of appeal raised by Atiku and the PDP, including issues regarding qualification, non-compliance with the Electoral Act, the requirement for 25% votes in the FCT, and electoral misconduct.

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In response to the Supreme Court’s decision, Clarke remarked on what he perceived as a lack of thoroughness in the appeals. He pointed out that the legal representation of Atiku and Obi could have been more robust. The senior lawyer even stated that he would not allow a junior member of his chamber to present such a brief before the Supreme Court.

“Where the law is not allowed to put its heads up in a proceeding, it means that there is another law which prohibits their lawyers to have brought such. They know it, they still decided — either to please their supporters and allow such a matter to come before the Supreme Court,” he said.

“I will not allow any junior in my chambers, even one or two years old to carry such a brief to go and argue in court when I have looked into all the facts and the facts are very clear. There is a limitation of time in election matters. You cannot do certain things.”

Clarke said Obi and Atiku’s lawyers had the chance to present their evidence at a lower court but they did not.

“They had the opportunity as a pre-election matter but they never brought it out. They had the opportunity as a matter within a tribunal’s case but they never brought it. They are now coming and bringing matters that should have been argued in the lower tribunal and the Supreme Court will now be reviewing such evidence as an appellate matter and not as an original jurisdictional matter.”

“I am not blaming the lawyers; that is the last thing I would do, but I am sorry to say that the lawyers, with due respect to them, should have done a better job in this regard.

“As the Supreme Court said, if you have facts that were available before the trial started and you did not bring them into the trial court…Therefore, if you intend to use any evidence in the Supreme Court, you must have ensured that such evidence must have passed through the original jurisdiction of the lower court,” he said.

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