APC: Supreme Court fixes date to hear appeals by Zamfara gov-elect, others

The Supreme Court will on May 16 hear appeals filed by candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections in Zamfara State.

Zamfara Governor-elect, Mukhtar Shehu Idris and elected members of the state’s House of Assembly filed the appeals against the March 25, 2019 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Sokoto.

The Court of Appeal had, in its judgment, set aside the judgment by the Zamfara State High Court, which upheld the primaries conducted by the APC and allowed it to field candidates for the 2019 general elections.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court conducted preliminary proceedings on the appeals, during which parties were allowed to regularise their various appeals.

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Lawyer to the appellants, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) objected to move by respondents’ lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) to argue his objection to the appeals.

The court’s panel of Justices, led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, assured parties that the court will hear and decide the appeals before its annual vacation.

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