SDP crisis: Why court adjourned criminal case against Gabam – Gombe

National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Prof. Sodiq Abubakar, has explained why a Magistrate Court sitting in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, adjourned the party’s criminal case against its former national chairman, Shehu Gabam, till July 20th, 2026.

In an interview with a journalist after the hearing on Wednesday, Gombe said the court adjourned over the party’s inability to provide key evidence to the case.

He stated the party’s leadership applied to a Nigerian bank for its statement, which had not been provided.

According to him, the party had to use the court registry to subpoena the bank to provide the bank statement within a week.

“The case has been adjourned to 20th July next month as a result of our inability to lay our hands on one of the key documents that are going to be tendered for the case, which is the bank statement.

“We applied to the bank, and the bank was not able to give us the document, which is the bank statement.

“So thereafter, we have to go through the registry of the court to subpoena the bank for the bank to bring the said document by itself. The bank said because it’s involved a lot of, you know, pages, the document is bulky, so they need time, and they have to stamp it after getting the approval from the headquarters, so they asked for one week before they would be able to lay that document for us.

“As a result of that, we informed the court and the court tried to ask us to keep the date, and now the date has been adjourned to the 20th of next month for continuation of the hearing,” he said.

Recall that Gabam was arraigned in May 2026 in the suit numbered DCC/10/2026 over financial misappropriation amounting to N35 million during his time as the party’s national chairman.