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An appeal filed by the Senator Abubakar Gada-led faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Sokoto State has been struck out by the Appeal Court in Abuja on Thursday for lack of territorial jurisdiction.
Senators Aliyu Wamakko and Abubakar Gada have been battling for the
state’s congresses of the party.
An FCT High Court had earlier declined an application by a faction of the APC in Sokoto State loyal to a former governor of the state, Aliyu Wamakko, to set aside its earlier judgement over the disputed congresses in the state.
The Wamakko group however appealed the FCT High Court judgement.
The appeal was brought by the party’s state chairman, Isa Sadiq Acida.
Earlier, Acida had asked a High Court in Sokoto to restrain APC from recognising Mainasara Abubakar Sani and others as officers and delegates of the ward, LG and state congresses of the party which were held on October 13, September 14 and October 16, 2021 respectively.
Delivering ruling on the appeal by the Gada’s group, the member panel of Justices, H.S Tsammani, B.A. Georgewill and D.S Senchi unanimously submitted that the FCT High Court lacked territorial jurisdiction and struck out the appeal.
The judges frowned at the trend of forum shopping by legal counsels and warned them to desist from dragging the courts into ignoble practices.