Court remands Malami-backed ADC chairman in Kebbi over alleged contempt

A Magistrate Court successful Birnin Kebbi has ordered the detention of a factional president of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, successful Kebbi State, Sufyanu Bala, implicit alleged contempt of court, deepening the enactment situation wrong the party.

Presiding Magistrate Abubakar Koko directed that Bala beryllium remanded successful custody pending the proceeding of his bail exertion scheduled for April 21, 2026.

The suit, filed by a rival faction, is besides seeking an bid restraining Bala from parading himself arsenic the ADC authorities chairman.

Counsel to the complainant, Garba Shehu, representing factional president Abdulrazaq Iko, told the tribunal the exertion was aimed astatine enforcing compliance with an earlier tribunal directive.

“Our exertion is rooted successful the request to uphold the authorization of the court. The suspect has continued to enactment successful defiance of subsisting orders,” Shehu said.

However, defence counsel Ahmad Fingilla challenged the competence of the case, arguing that the Magistrate Court lacked jurisdiction arsenic the substance was already earlier a High Court.

“This honourable tribunal cannot presume jurisdiction implicit a substance already earlier the High Court.

The alleged contempt did not originate here, and arsenic such, these proceedings are fundamentally flawed,” Fingilla submitted.

Despite the objection, the tribunal ruled that the matter...