Prof. Jerome Nyameh, whose suit was dismissed on Friday by the Court of Appeal in Yola, Adamawa State, for lack of merit, said he had concluded plans to approach the apex court for justice.
Delivering judgment between Nyameh and Agbu on Friday over the governorship primary election, the three Justices of the appellate court were divided in their decisions. This boosted Nyameh’s optimism that the Supreme Court will consider his arguments and rule in his favour.
At the appellate court, while Justices Obande Ogbuinya and Adebukunola Banjoko, who were absent, wrote their majority judgment in favour of Kefas, Justice Saidu Husaini, wrote a minority judgment in favour of Nyameh.
Nyameh, in a statement, yesterday, through the secretary of a support group, Stephen Haruna, said Justice Husaini the two absentee justices wrote in their majority judgments that “the case is an internal affair of PDP and that they will not interfere.”
He said: “Drawing from the above strong point of law raised in the minority judgment of Justice Husaini, the judgment of the two justices will now be the subject of appeal to Supreme Court. Nyameh shall be asking the Supreme Court to agree with Husaini, who was present, and not the other two justices who, though absent, decided the case in favour of Kefas.
“Our team of learned counsel shall strongly contest the appeal to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the judgment of Husaini is better than the those of the two justices that were absent and, thus, the appeal ought to favour Nyameh.”
