The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, struck out an appeal the Federal Government filed to reopen the trial of a former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.
The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that the record of appeal FG transmitted before it was incompetent.
Justice J.O.K Oyewole, who read the lead judgment, held that the FG failed to properly transmit the record as prescribed by its extant rules, adding that it was neither stamped nor the official designation of the person who signed it indicated.
