In compliance with a Supreme Court order, the case challenging the emergence of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the April 2015 elections in Sokoto State has returned to the Federal High Court, with all parties making appearance before Justice F. Kolawole.
Senator Umaru Dahiru is challenging the emergence of Tambuwal as APC’s candidate in an election the defendant eventually won and for which he was sworn in as governor of Sokoto State in May 2015.
At the resumed hearing of the case on Monday in Court 6 of the Federal High Court, counsels to the APC, JS Okutepa SAN and Aare Muyiwa Akinboro SAN, picked hole in the applicant’s amended motion, which sought an order declaring Dahiru the governor of Sokoto State.
Dahiru, through his lawyer, Abdulhamid Muhammed Esq, had brought an amended motion dated January 30, and filed on the 31stof January 2017, urging the court to declare his client governor, a move objected to by the defendants.
In a counter affidavit, Tambuwal, represented by SI Ameh SAN, G Tetengi SAN and 23 others, raised objection to the amended motion, saying all parties were bound by law to commence trial of the originating summons as ruled by the Supreme Court.
Okutepa, SAN, further observed that allowing the motion to stand would be deviating from the original case.
Justice Kolawole adjourned the case to February 28 for hearing of the motion on notice.
