Plateau: Group rejects Jos North indigeneship judgement, threatens court action 

The Plateau Initiative for Development and Advancement of Natives (PIDAN) has opposed the caller High Court ruling granting indigeneship to Hausa/Fulani residents successful Jos North Local Government Area based connected their commencement and semipermanent enactment successful the state.

The group, which reacted to the ruling during a property league held successful Jos on Monday, declared that, arsenic a mode of registering its rejection of the judgment, it volition caput to the Court of Appeal and prosecute each disposable ineligible and law means to situation the decision.

During the property conference, which was organised by PIDAN aft an exigency gathering of its enactment to reappraisal the implications of the judgement delivered by Hon. Justice C. Donglong connected June 9, 2026, the radical said it had entered into collaborative talks with like-minded groups and organisations successful the authorities and had acceptable up a committee to instantly survey the judgement and research ineligible options, including filing an appeal.

In a communiqué issued astatine the extremity of the league and jointly signed by the President of PIDAN, Amb. Danjuma Nanpon Sheni, and the Secretary-General,...