Festus Keyamo, Chief Spokesman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Campaign (2019 & 2023), said, “admission of a document by a court of law is not necessarily an acceptance of its contents as no weight may be attached to the document at the end of the day”.
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| Festus Keyamo, Chief Spokesman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Campaign (2019 & 2023) |
He pleaded, “Can someone please calmly and kindly explain to those who know nothing about legal processes and are getting over-excited over nothing”.
Keyamo said: “Can someone please calmly and kindly explain to those who know nothing about legal processes and are getting over-excited over nothing that:
“1. Admission of a document by a court of law is not necessarily an acceptance of its contents as no weight may be attached to the document at the end of the day;
“2. That there was an agreement between all counsel to let all documents be admitted in evidence (even when there are objections) pending when arguments as to the objections regarding admissibility would be taken at the stage of address before final judgment.
“3. Hence, documents admitted during proceedings can be expunged at the stage of judgment if they are found to have been inadmissible in the first place.
“It is important to give these clarifications so that legal illiterates will not suffer heart attacks if they find out that the so-called documents upon which they are pinning all their hopes are jettisoned at the end of the day for lack of probative value or for being inadmissible. I am not saying this will be the case. I am only saying that it is a POSSIBILITY in law. Nothing is ‘slam dunk’ because a document is ‘admitted’ at this stage.
“I rest my case.”
