AKPABIO, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgement): This is an application by the INTERVENER, brought under Section 16 of the Court of Appeal Act 1984, as amended for the following Orders of this court:
An Order joining the Applicant, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Abacha, in this suit as interested party.
Any other consequential orders deemed appropriate by this Honourable Court in the circumstance of this case.
The said application was supported by an affidavit of 5 paragraphs and 16 sub-paragraphs, sworn to by Ibrahim Mujaheed, a Legal Practitioner of Cosmic Chambers, Abuja, to which were exhibited the following documents:
A charge sheet No. MAK/A/815 showing that the Intervener was charged along with four others at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ikeja, with the murder of one Alhaja Kudirat Abiola on 4th June, 1996. (This was exhibited herein as Exhibit NSA ‘A’). A copy of an Information in charge No. ID/43C/99 showing that the Intervener was being charged along with three others at the High Court…