Nationality Nigerian Years active 1953 - 2014 | Citizenship Nigerian Ethnicity Yoruba Name Kayode Eso | |
Notable work Awolowo v. Shagari case | ||
Occupation lawyersolicitorjudge | ||
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Chief Kayode Eso, CON, CFR (born September 18, 1925 - November 16, 2012) was a Nigerian prominent Jurist and former Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
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- Early life
- Law career
- Membership
- References
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Early life
Justice Kayode Eso was born on September 18, 1925 at Ilesa, a city in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria. He attended Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained a bachelor's and master's degrees in Law with a specialization in Legal science in 1953 and 1956 respectively.
Law career
On March 1965, he became the acting Judge of the High Court of Western Nigeria and few years later, he was appointed to the bench of the Court of Appeal Western Nigeria as Justice. On January 1978, he was appointed, Chief Judge of the Oyo State Judiciary, a position he held till September 1990, when he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Professor Yemi Akinseye George, SAN and the late professor J. F. Ade Ajayi book titled The Making of A Judge narrates the chronological episodes in contemporary history of Kayode Eso's judicial activism.
He is one of the 8 panels of judges at the Supreme Court of Nigeria that presided over the Awolowo v. Shagari case in which Chief Obafemi Awolowo's petition challenged the declaration of Shehu Shagari as the president elect of the August 11, 1979 presidential election. The court ruled that " Sheu Shagari won two-third of the total votes cast, having polled a total votes of 16.8 millions with 11.9 millions votes ahead of Obafemi Awolowo who polled a total votes of 4.9 millions.