«We first took
cognizance of your extreme love for the North when you courageously supported the then Jega - led INEC creation of additional 30,000 polling units, at a time southern leaders, led by former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, Chief Edwin Clark, Senator Femi Okuronmu and Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, were strongly
against it for favouring the North
against the South.
It is extended also to controversies between a State and foreign states; and if the argument taken from the order of designation were good, it would be meant here that this Court might have
cognizance of a suit where a State is plaintiff, and some foreign state a defendant, but not where a foreign state brings a suit
against a State.