Justice Agbim had stated that the Supreme Court has held in a number of cases that nomination of candidates is an internal affair of a political party, and demanding that “the legal profession should wake up.”
The NCSSR in a statement by its Conveners, Yunusa Ya’u, Mimidoo Achakpa and Franklin Oloniju, drew attention to Justice Inyang Okoro’s concurring statement to wit “My only worry is that a lot of people have suffered as a result of the Court of Appeal’s decision. It was absolutely wrong.”