SDP counsel absent from Ekiti tribunal after relocation request fails
Counsel for the SDP was absent from a tribunal sitting after the Court of Appeal rejected a request to move the hearing, Premium Times reported. Lawyer Akinbuli asked for an adjournment pending the appellate court’s consideration of the relocation application. The supplied material does not state the tribunal’s ruling on that request.
Counsel for the Social Democratic Party was absent from a tribunal sitting after the Court of Appeal rejected a request to relocate the hearing, Premium Times reported. The lawyer, identified as Mr Akinbuli, sent a letter seeking an adjournment. He asked the tribunal to postpone proceedings pending the appellate court’s consideration of the application concerning the venue.
The report says the Court of Appeal rejected the request to relocate the hearing, but the supplied material does not give the date of that decision, the reasons for it or the proposed alternative venue. It also does not state whether the tribunal granted Akinbuli’s request for an adjournment, how the other parties responded or what stage the case had reached. The available information therefore establishes a dispute over the location of the proceedings and the absence of the SDP’s counsel at the sitting.
Further details about the underlying case and the tribunal’s next steps were not provided.
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