There was jubilation at the Court of Appeal, Abuja division, as the court upheld the appeals by the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje faction of All Progressives Congress (APC).
The jubilant supporters were seen hailing the judgement, pumping fists and taking selfies. Sources say there was also jubilation in Kano following Thursday’s judgement.
A three-member panel of the appellate court presided by Justice Haruna Tsammani on Thursday set aside the judgements of the FCT High Court, filed over the 2021 ward and local government congresses, for lack of jurisdiction.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja quashed the lower court judgment which gave Senator Ibrahim Shekarau’s G-7 faction of the APC in Kano victory over the faction led by the state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Daily Trust gathered that the appellate court ruled in favour of the governor’s faction in all three appeals lodged against the judgments of the lower courts.
The decisions of the courts were delivered Thursday morning by Justices Haruna Tsammani, B. I. Gafai and J. Amadi.
“The judgment of the lower court has been set aside for lack of territorial jurisdiction and also because it is an intraparty affair. The third ground is that even the originating process that were used to file the case was wrongly done as such even the originating process was set aside. All the decisions are unanimous,” the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice for Kano State, Barrister Lawan Musa told Daily Trust.
