In the suit filed through the office of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Wale Fapohunda, the Ekiti state government is asking the apex court to issue an order striking down the directive as it relates to Virtual or Remote Court sittings.
It also wants the Supreme Court to nullify the directive to the extent that same purports to be binding on state High Courts and other subordinate courts in Ekiti State for being inconsistent with some Sections of the 1999 Constitution.
Apart from the Attorney General of the Federation, the Attorneys General of Lagos and Ogun States who have implemented virtual court proceedings were also listed as second and third defendants.
Ekiti State further wants the Supreme Court to determine whether the AGF’s guidelines are not a derogation from the legislative, executive and judicial law-making, law execution and adjudicatory rules making powers exclusively vested in states of the federation in respect of states courts.
