Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s media aide, Paul Ibe, has criticised former Senator Shehu Sani over his reaction to the Federal High Court judgment affirming the leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
The exchange followed Thursday’s ruling by the Federal High Court in Abuja, which upheld the leadership of the party under former Senate President David Mark.
Reacting to the judgment, Shehu Sani suggested that the court’s decision reaffirmed confidence in the judiciary and dismissed claims that there was a plan to impose a one-party state.
“Now that the High Court has ruled in favour of Mark and against Nafiu, the Judiciary will now be called the ‘last hope of the common man’; it also means that there is no plot to impose a ‘one-party state,’” Sani wrote on X.
However, Paul Ibe rejected the former senator’s position, arguing that some members of the judiciary had played a role in sustaining President Bola Tinubu’s mandate.
“Hell no, @ShehuSani! Are you talking about the same judiciary, specifically the bench that some of its ignoble members have been standing on Tinubu’s mandate? Some of our politicians should, in fact, be sent on attachment or refresher courses in the art of politicking to some of the judges. #Lifusprudence,” Ibe posted.
The court, presided over by Justice Musa Liman, dismissed a suit filed by House of Representatives member Leke Abejide challenging the ADC’s leadership structure.
Justice Liman held that the case lacked merit and was not justiciable, describing it as an internal affair of a political party beyond the court’s intervention.
The court also upheld the preliminary objections filed by the ADC, its former National Chairman Ralph Nwosu, incumbent National Chairman David Mark, and National Secretary Rauf Aregbesola, ruling that Abejide failed to establish that any of his legal rights had been violated by the emergence of the current party leadership.
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