Supreme Court fixes judgment for Jigawa APC governorship dispute Friday

• Published date: 12 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Supreme Court will tomorrow deliver judgment in the dispute over the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Jigawa State.

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

Aliyu is by the appeal marked: SC/1453/2022 challenging the November 4 judgment by the Court of Appeal (Kano division) dismissing his earlier appeal and upholding Namadi's election as the governorship candidate of the APC.

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

Justice Dikko had, in the...