The People’s Democratic Party has approached the Supreme Court, praying the court to determine whether the Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, Taraba State, has the power to upturn the judgment of the Apex Court in the suit filed by Senator Abubakar Danladi in 2021.
The Peoples Democratic Party has approached the Supreme Court, praying the court to determine whether the Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, Taraba State, has the power to upturn the judgment of the Apex Court in the suit filed by Senator Abubakar Danladi in 2021.
The Apex Court will also determine if the trial court erred in law when it set aside its earlier order in suit FHC/JAL/CS/1/2019 barring Danladi from participating in the election over alleged age falsification, an order that was affirmed by the Supreme Court. Already, the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Monday upheld the verdict of the trial court, ruling that it had jurisdiction to set aside the judgment of superior courts if the same was not delivered on its merit and if such judgment was based on the statute of limitations.
Danaladi was sacked by the court three days to the 2019 general elections and stopped from parading himself as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in a case filed by Usman Udi, Joshua Paaku, George Geoffrey, and Tanko Munkaila against Danladi, the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Dissatisfied by the judgment and realising it was an obstacle to his political future under Section 29 of the Electoral Act, 2022, Danladi, who appealed his disqualification up to the Supreme Court and lost, decided to file a fresh application before the High Court in Jalingo to nullify the 2019 judgment, and had his way.
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