A lawyer, David Ibeawuchi, has filed a notice and grounds of appeal before the Supreme Court urging it to uphold the sacking of a Member of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Ibrahim Baba Hassan, by a Federal High Court sitting in Jos.
The lawyer also urged the Supreme Court to set aside the judgement of the Court of Appeal, Jos Division, that re-instated the lawmaker based on technical grounds.
Recall that the Court of Appeal, Jos Division, recently re-instated Hassan (Jos North/North) who was sacked by the Federal High Court sitting in Jos over alleged certificate forgery.
The lawmaker was taken to court since 2015 by Abdul Nasir Saleh who challenged the authenticity of the lawmaker’s Diploma Certificate in Business Administration which he claimed to have obtained from the University of Jos (Unijos).
The High Court sacked the lawmaker, ordered him to pay the N25m damages to the plaintiff; and also ordered him to return all the salaries and allowances he collected while in the house.
But counsel to the lawmaker, Solomon Umoh, appealed the matter at the Court of Appeal, Jos Division.
In a consensus judgement by Justice Mudassiru Oneyangi, Tani Hassan and Habeeb Abiru, they set aside the ruling of the Federal High Court based on the ground that the plaintiff filed the matter before the court after 14 days of the primaries of his party in 2014.
But, Barr. Ibeawuchi said the Appeal Court erred in its judgement because it approbated and reprobated on the matter in its application of the law.a
