POLITICS- Zamfara PDP leadership crisis: Appeal court strikes out earlier judgement

The court of appeal sitting in Sokoto has struck out a judgement earlier delivered by the Federal High court in Gusau affirming Senator Hassan Muhammad Nasiha as Zamfara PDP chairman.

The National Working Committee led by the then PDP national chairman Senator Ali Modu Sheriff had earlier dissolved the Zamfara state PDP executive committee led by senator Hassan Nasiha.

Senator Hassan Muhammad Nasiha then challenged the action of the NWC in court on the ground that their tenure as the party exco had not lapsed. The Federal High Court delivered a judgement in his favour.

But in a copy of judgement delivered by Justice Frederick O. Oho of the Appeal Court which was made available to newsmen by Alhaji Nasiru Abubakar Milo who was elected the PDP's chairman after the Nasiha's led Congress was dissolved the court set aside the earlier judgement.

The court explained that it is a notorious principle of law that the courts generally have no business meddling in the internal affairs of political parties on issues bothering on how they run their parties or even the question of how they choose their candidates for elective offices.

Therefore the said judgement of the Federal High Court is further struck out due to reason of lack of jurisdiction on the part of the court.