Forum shopping occurs when a party attempts to have his action tried in a particular Court or jurisdiction where he feels he will receive the most favorable decision or verdict.
The decision to file this suit in the FCT High Court far away from Gombe State where the cause of action arose cannot be anything but a sheer decision to abuse the judicial process. It was a decision to actuate forum shopping. It is a specie of abuse of judicial process. Forum shopping denotes a rather reprehensible practice of choosing the most favourable territorial jurisdiction or Court in which a matter or cause may be entertained and adjudicated upon. A typical example of forum shopping according to Black's Law Dictionary, is where the plaintiff institutes a suit in the jurisdiction with a reputation for awarding high damages, disdain for political gimmicks or filing several similar suits and keeping the one with the preferred Judge. See also IDEMUDIA v. IGBINEDION UNIVERSITY, OKADA & ORS. (2015) LPELR – 24514 (CA).