Supreme court to hear Mark-led faction’s appeal on ADC leadership dispute April 22 ‣ Info Giant Fm 97.1

The Supreme Court has fixed April 22 to hear an appeal filed by a faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by David Mark, the former senate president, regarding the party’s leadership dispute.

At the court session on Tuesday, a five-member panel of the apex court, headed by Mohammed Garba, ordered the Mark-led faction of the party to file and serve legal processes on all respondents within the next 24 hours.

The court added that upon receipt of the processes, the respondents shall file their responses within three days.

Also, the apex court held that the appellants shall have one day to reply to the respondents’ responses, adding that filing and exchange of briefs by the parties must be completed before April 20.

Following the ruling, Jubril Okutepa, counsel to the Mark-led executives of the ADC, withdrew a motion earlier filed to stay the execution of the court of appeal judgment that ordered the party to maintain the status quo ante bellum.

Okutepa noted that the motion was no longer needed since the apex court had expedited the hearing of the substantive appeal.

With the withdrawal of the motion, the apex court struck it out. The court had expressed its readiness to hear the case on Tuesday, had the parties filed the necessary processes.

“If parties were ready, we would have taken this appeal today. We need to deal with the appeal and not the motion. Ordinarily, this court does not grant an order of stay,” Garba said.

“The court is willing to deal with this case as soon as possible, if parties are ready.”

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