The Criminal Justice Act, 2015, under which the President, Court of Appeal issued the FIAT/Permission pursuant to Section 396(7) thereof (as opposed to the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015) does not exist in the corpus juris of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, particularly the 2015 edition thereof. Ordinarily, an act done pursuant to, or in furtherance of, a non-existent law is itself a nullity. It has no binding effect. As Ogundare, JSC had put it in ADEFULU & OR v. OKULAJA & ORS (1996) LPELR – 90 (SC) at 34 “null and void” means that which binds no one or is incapable of giving effect to any rights or obligations under any circumstances, or that which is of no effect. The parties, particularly the Appellant, seem to think that the President, Court of Appeal, on 2nd July, 2018, issued his “FIAT/permission” to Hon. Justice M. B. Idris, JCA, “to 10

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