Court fixes hearing on Sokoto ADC leadership tussle for July 22 2026

Federal High Court in Sokoto, Monday, adjourned to July 22, 2026 for hearing in the suit brought before it by one Alhaji Umar Faruk challenging the legality of the current leadership of the party, after a heated debate between senior counsels.

The debate came to the fore as the presiding judge, Justice Ahmad Mahmud Gama, ruled in an application filed before the court by the lead counsel for the 1st defendant, Dr Sulaiman Usman, SAN.

Barrister Salmanu Jabo, who stood in for Usman, had earlier filed an application for the adjournment of the matter sequel to the absence of his principal, whom he said was unavoidably absent attending to some critical issues relating to the suit.

Jabo said that he was incompetent to proceed with the hearing on Monday as he has filed three pending processes before the court that were not served on all the parties, insisting that doing so is a fundamental right of all the parties.

The lead counsel for the 2nd and 3rd defendants, Prof. Ibrahim Abdullahi, SAN, who didn’t object to the application for an adjournment by the counsel for the 1st defendant, urged the court to grant it in the contest of justice and fair play.

Ibrahim, who drew the attention of the Court to Order 26, Rule 4 of the Federal High Court regulation, said a person who was served with proceedings has seven days within which to respond.

Burkaa, who said he was ready for the day’s proceedings, had maintained that the application for the adjournment of the matter was incompetent.