The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has urged the Supreme Court to impose a pre-hearing fine of N100 million on any party seeking a review of its ruling.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) disclosed this while reacting to the apex court’s ruling quashing Emeka Ihedioha’s application for review of its judgement on the Imo gubernatorial election.
Recall that a seven-man panel of justices had on January 14 voided the election of Ihedioha and declared Sen. Hope Uzodinma as duly-elected governor of the state.
Ihedioha then filed an application seeking the review of the controversial judgement.
But in a majority decision of 6 to 1, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said it stood by its earlier judgement, dismissing Ihedioha’s application.
Keyamo, who took to Twitter, urged the apex court to amend its rules to compel applicants for review of its judgement to deposit N100 million bank draft with the court at the time of filing the application.
He said that this would help cover the costs of the respondents.
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“Taking a cue from what I tweeted days before the S/Court ruled on the Review cases, it may now be appropriate for the Court to amend its rules to make an Applicant for Review deposit a bank draft of N100m AT THE TIME OF FILING the application to cover the costs of the Respondents,” Keyamo wrote.