Ahead of tomorrow’s local government election in Kano State, a Federal High Court in the state has sacked all 44 chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
News About Nigeria reports that the court’s judgement was delivered on Friday by Justice Simon Amobeda following a case filed by Engineer Muhammad Babayo and a faction of the NNPP against the party’s leadership.
In his judgement, Justice Amobeda ruled that the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) should accept a new list of candidates submitted by the faction led by the recognised State Chairman, Dalhatu Shehu Usman, in accordance with the party’s constitution.
He also ordered that KANSIEC must recognise the list of candidates submitted by the plaintiffs.
The judgement reads, “The defendant is hereby restrained from releasing the voters register for the 2nd Defendant to conduct the proposed election on 26th October 2024. The 2nd Defendant is hereby directed to accept as genuine and subsisting the list of NNPP candidates submitted to it by the recognized State Chairman, Dalhatu Shehu Usman,” the judge ruled, adding that “any other list submitted for the 2024 Local Government Election in Kano State should be rejected.”
Furthermore, Justice Amobeda instructed the 3rd and 4th defendants who are the Inspector General of Police and the DSS to not provide security for the election under the current arrangement.
“That the 3rd and 4th Defendants are forthwith restrained from providing security and protection to the scene of the Election plans to take place on the 26th October, 2024,” the court ruled.
