Zamfara Guber: Supreme Court Adjourns, Fixes March 17 For Hearing Date

The Supreme court, Monday resolved to adjourn hearing to March 17, on the applications seeking a reversal of its judgment over the contentious gubernatorial and other elections held in 2019 general elections in Zamfara State.

Consequently, the APC lost the governorship and House of Assembly seats to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), at the instance of which, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, member of the PDP became the incumbent Governor of the state.

At the resumed sitting today after the counsels from the appellant and respondent announced their appearances, Mike Ozekhome who represented the respondent counsel, Tim Inuwa affirmed that they were not served the court processes and hearing notice relating to the applications.

After an ensued legal firework between Ozekhome and appellant’s counsel,  Robert Clark, SAN, the apex court adjourned the hearing to March 17, to enable the respondent counsels be served with the said documents.