Jigawa APC gov ticket: Supreme Court to deliver judgment on Friday

• Published date: 11 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Supreme Court is to deliver judgment on Friday in the legal battle on the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jigawa.

A five-member panel of Justices led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun fixed the date for judgment after taking arguments from parties in the appeal filed by Farouk Adamu Aliyu former Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives and the cross appeal by Umar Namadi the current Deputy Governor of the state.

Umar Namadi through his counsel, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, had won the legal battle at the Federal High Court in Dutse as well as at the Court of Appeal in Kano.

But Aliyu is by his appeal marked: SC/1453/2022 challenging the Nov.4, 2022 judgment by the Court of Appeal (Kano division) which dismissed his earlier appeal and upheld Namadi's election as the governorship candidate of the APC in Jigawa State.

A three-member panel presided over by Justice Ita Mbaba, in the Nov. 4 judgment, unanimously dismissed Aliyu's appeal against the Sept. 13, 2022 judgement by Justice Hassan Dikko of the Federal High Court, Dutse, for lacking in merit.

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