Tussle Emirate for 20 years: we accept the verdict-Jokolo’s Lawyer

The Lawyer of the Emir deposed of Gwandu, to Mustapha Jokolo, declared Wednesday to accept the sentence by the Supreme Court that overturned the orders of the Court for his restoration.

The Supreme Court, with a sentence divided of three and two, found that Kebbi’s Alta Court, who said Jokolo as Emir, was missing from jurisdiction to entertain the matter since the requirement for the action of the court was not respected.

The apical court also affirmed the historical operator, Alhaji Muhammadu Iliyasu Bashar, such as Emir of Gwandu.

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With the judgment, the long 20-year sold on the Emirate of Gwandu between Ilyasu-Bashar and Jokolo has come to an end.

Bashar, who is a cousin of Jokolo, had, through his advice, Yakubu Maikyau (San), challenged the Verdetti in favor of the reintegration of Jokolo against him and the government of the state of Kebbi.

Reacting to the judgment, Jokolo’s consultant, Sylvester imhabe, excluded any request for judicial revision while he (Jokolo) had accepted the verdict in good faith.

However, Imhabe has surprised that the majority decision was strongly based on section 4 of the law of heads (appointment and deposition) of the state of Kebbi when their case was focused on section 6, which does not require a pre-action complaint, since it was not the selection of a new king.

“Our case was in deposition, which is section 6 of Section 4 of the Law of Heads (appointment and deposition), but theirs is section 4 of the law; we did not go close to section 4,” he said.

One of Jokolo’s helpers told one of our correspondents, who yesterday visited his home in Ashafa in Kaduna, that the deposed emir had urged his supporters to be calm and see the judgment as the will of God.

The helper, who preferred anonymity, said that although Jokolo was inside the house performing Zuhr’s prayer, it was not the right time to speak.

The verdict

In the main sentence issued by judge Emmanuel Agim, the Supreme Court said that Jokolo should have submitted a formal complaint to the governor, as required by section 4 of the law of the heads of the State of Kebbi (appointment and deposition), before approaching the Court for the intervention.

“This case was presented prematurely, without first respecting the requirement to submit a complaint to the governor.

“Consequently, the Court was missing from jurisdiction and its sentence is a nullity,” said Agim.

He added: “The inability to warn the governor has stripped the court of jurisdiction to listen to the case”.

On the basis of this, the panel put aside the judgments of both lower courts, but has not made orders on costs.

However, in a dissenting judgment, the judge Ibrahim Mohammed Salawa did not agree with the judgment of the majority, rejected the crossed appeals and affirmed the verdicts of the lower courts.

He claimed that the governor should act in accordance with the law and the right trial.

In the same way, judge Uwani Abba-Aji, while disseminating himself for the majority judgment, argued that the time had come to the Court Apex began to provide substantial justice to the people.

Previously, during the 11 March procedure, the parties had agreed the consolidation of the four appeals and two crossed about the decision on the main appeal of being binding for the rest.

Other motions in the appeal were consolidated to facilitate the conclusion of the prolonged legal dispute.

Emir Ilyasu Bashar, who is a cousin of Jokolo, had, through his advice, Yakubu Maikyau (San), challenged the verdicts in favor of Jokolo’s reintegration against him and the government of the state of Kebbi.

In 2005 the High Court of the State of Kebbi had canceled the removal of Jokolo by the throne and was affirmed by the Court of Appeal of Sokoto on April 14, 2016, including orders to pay all his salaries and outstanding rights for the period in which he was out of charge.

Ilyasu-Bashar had argued that the high court was missing from jurisdiction to entertain Jokolo’s claims, adding that the proceedings at the Court of Appeal were null, null and without any effect due to its non-compliance with section 4.

However, Jokolo’s main councilor, Sylvester Imhabe, asked the jury of the Supreme Court to reject the crossed weighted with substantial costs against the governor of the State of Kebbi Nasir Idris, the State Prosecutor General, Abdullahi Umar, among others who have not presented the facts to disturb the sections by the government of the State for having convened the government of the State for having conquered the people who have convened who convened the people who conquered the people who conquered the people who conquered the people who conquered the people who convened the people who conveyed the section by the sections by the sections. Head (appointment and deposition) law of Kebbi’s state before his deposition (Jokolo).

The judges of the Court of Appeal, led by judge Tunde Awotoye, in 2016 declared that the deposition of Jokolo of the former governor Adamu Aliero di Kebbi violated the provisions of the law.

The panel believed that the action worked specifically against sections 6 and 7 of the main appointment and the law of the state deposition.

The appeal court considered that from the evidence placed before it, the state government did not investigate the accusation against Jokolo, nor did he consult the Council of State of Chiefs before carrying out the decision.

Before his deposition in 2005, Jokolo, who is a major one of the retired Nigerian army and former helper to the former head of the general state Muhammad Buhari, was the 19th Emir of Gwandu.

Gwandu is also known as Gando and is located in the state of Kebbi, in the north -ovest of Nigeria. He was one of the old kingdoms of the States of Hausa and was founded in the 16th century by the Kabbawa people. The kingdom arrived under British domination in 1903.

Jokolo was deposed in 2005 and subsequently contested the action in court. Since then, the legal battle was underway for 20 years until yesterday.

The Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division, in his sentence in 2014, had ordered Jokolo’s reintegration, but Emir Ilyasu Bashar and the government of Kebbi’s state appealed to the decision. Their arguments included that the case had been erroneously submitted to the high Court of the State, making the appeal procedures null.

Residents welcome the judgment

The sentence of the Supreme Court yesterday aroused reactions to Birnin Kebbi, home of the Gwandu Emrato.

The residents, who spoke to Daily Trust, said they felt lifted by the fact that Emirate’s fight had been resolved.

Ahaji Umar Farouk, from Gwandu’s Emirate and residing to Birnin Kebbi, said: “We are raised by the fact that the succession of twenty -year -old moves to the throne of Gwandu Emirate had been placed to rest with the judgment of the Supreme Court. People are going for their activities. Nobody is angry for the pronouncement of the court”.

Another resident, Alhaji Abubakar Ahmed Birnin, said that the judgment has marked a new chapter in the history of the Emirate since “both sides have buried the auction, the Emirate must go on from here”.

Rafin Atiku Ta Gabas village, under the Emirate of Gwandu, Alhaji Hamza Ahmed Bernin Kebbi, said that the judgment was issued at the right time.

“I will order the people of Gwandu’s Emrato to maintain peace and continue to respect the Emir,” he said.

Kebbi Govt asks for unity, reconciliation

In a statement of yesterday, the commissioner for information from the state of Kebbi, Ahmed Birnin Kebbi, invited the people of the Gwandu Emirated to see the judgment as a request for unity and reconciliation.
The declaration states that the government was optimistic about the fact that the judgment would inaugurate a new era of peace and progress for the Emirate in particular and the state in general.
He added that the government had extended his congratulations to the Emir Iliyasu Bashar.
He described the victory as the culmination of a longtime and dispute feud that had afflicted the Emirate for two decades.
He observed that the judgment had put an end to the impasse, which had raised questions and negatively influenced the tranquility required so that the Emirate worked effectively.
The government has urged Emir to be magnanime in the victory and to gather all family members to bring peace and stability to the traditional institution and the emorated.