Nigeria, July 13 -- The Federal High Court in Gombe has reserved judgment in a suit filed by Usman Aliyu Garry challenging the emergence of Isa Pantami as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate for the 2027 Gombe State governorship election.

At Friday's resumed hearing before Justice Amina Aliyu Mohammed, counsel to the PDP, S. M. Yusuf, informed the court that he had regularised his motion through an oral application.

He subsequently adopted all the processes contained in the regularised further affidavit in support of the motion. He urged the court to strike out the suit, arguing that it was incompetent under Section 115 of the Evidence Act.

Counsel to Mr Pantami, Tunde Falola, also adopted his preliminary objectio...