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Hon. Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed has cited the lead Counsel for the petitioners in the election case before the Supreme Court for contempt of court. He explained that Madam Gloria Akufo, a leading member of the petitioners� legal team, made certain utterances amounting to contempt when given a platform in the media to air her views on the court proceedings. Addressing the court case during a panel discussion programme �Alhaji Alhaji� on Radio Gold, Hon. Murtala Mohammed raised concern over lawyers who make utterances which are contemptuous to the court. He therefore found as inappropriate some comments made by the petitioners� Counsel and therefore condemned her. �You have a lawyer who makes a public statement and I thought it was contemptuous�From the petitioners, public statement on radio and on TV [Gloria Akufo] that we are winning the case; that was contemptuous. You don�t make such statements.� he said.