Court adjourns ₦5.25m suit against TikToker over failed marriage promise

A Sharia Court successful Jogana has adjourned a ₦5.25 cardinal suit filed against fashionable TikToker Fatima Tabatul by Muhammad Abdulkadir, who is seeking a refund of wealth helium claims to person spent connected her aft she allegedly promised to wed him.

Abdulkadir is demanding ₦5,252,077, alleging that helium spent the wealth connected Tabatul based connected her committedness of marriage, which helium claims she aboriginal failed to fulfil.

The lawsuit came up for proceeding connected Tuesday, October 27, 2026, earlier Judge Kamalu Haruna Durumin Iya.

During the hearing, the defendant’s lawyer, Usman Umar Abdullahi, challenged the court’s jurisdiction, arguing that it lacked the ineligible authorization to perceive the case. He asked the justice to onslaught retired the suit.

However, the plaintiff’s lawyer, Yasir Garba Mukhtar, opposed the application, insisting that the defence had not presented capable ineligible reasons to amusement that the tribunal lacked jurisdiction.

Mukhtar maintained that the tribunal had the ineligible powerfulness to perceive and find the matter.

After listening to some lawyers, Judge Durumin Iya adjourned the lawsuit until November 3, 2026, erstwhile the tribunal is expected to present its ruling connected the jurisdictional challenge.

The determination volition find whether the Sharia Court tin proceed to perceive the main lawsuit implicit the wealth Abdulkadir claims to person spent pursuing the alleged committedness of...