Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the
Kwara State High Court, yesterday removed himself from a contempt application
filed by Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, against online publisher, Omoyele
Sowore, and his company, Sahara Reporters.
At the court proceedings in
Ilorin, counsel to the Senate President, Babatunde Olomu, had sought to move
the application for contempt proceedings against Sowore but Justice Oyinloye
asked him not to do so, on the ground that the matter affected the integrity of
his court.
“I do not want to be a judge in
what seems to be my own case; the application is hereby directed to be taken to
the Registry pronto,” the judge said.
He added that he had deliberately
refused to read the application since it was brought to his office.
In a short ruling thereafter, the
court directed Saraki to go back to the High Court Registry and start a fresh
process for the assigning of the case by the Chief Judge of the state.
Oyinloye also directed the
Registrar of his own court to initiate the transfer of the case file to the
main Registry and undertake a daily follow-up of the file until the matter had
been assigned to a new judge.
The judge later gave the two
parties a new date of November 24, 2017 when they are to appear before him to
give a progress report on the contempt proceedings.
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