Appeal Court restores Abubakar Gummi’s seat in House of Reps

The Court of Appeal successful Abuja, connected Friday, overturned the October 30, 2025 ruling of Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which had removed Abubakar Gummi from his presumption arsenic a subordinate of the House of Representatives.

In a unanimous decision, a three-member appellate sheet ruled that the proceedings tribunal erred successful declaring Gummi’s spot vacant solely due to the fact that helium switched allegiance from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, nether which helium was elected, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Gummi, representing the Gummi/Bukkuyum Federal Constituency successful Zamfara, had cited interior enactment crises, peculiarly astatine the nationalist enactment level, arsenic reasons for his defection.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Oyebiola Oyewumi, affirmed that Gummi had the inherent close to permission the PDP fixed the party’s prevailing interior challenges.

The tribunal besides recognised his rationale for seeking a level that would let him to efficaciously correspond his constituents without undue interference.

The appellate tribunal upheld Gummi’s entreaty (CA/ABJ/CV/1606/2025), acceptable speech the Federal High Court’s ruling successful the suit filed by the PDP and its Zamfara State Chairman, Jamilu Jibomagayaki (FHC/ABJ/CS/1803/2024), and awarded N1 cardinal successful costs against the PDP and Jibomagayaki successful favour of Gummi.

Speaking connected the ruling, Gummi n...