The Supreme Court has declared the dissolution of Local Government Administrations in Oyo and Katsina States and their replacement with Caretaker Committees as illegal, null and void.
In the suit filed by Abubakar Yantaba and others against the Governors, Justice Adamu Jauro in an unanimous decision on Friday condemned the Oyo and Katsina State governments for the unlawful dissolution of their States’ duly elected Local Government Council officials; allowing the appeal by setting aside the judgment of Court of Appeal.
The court held that the dissolution of duly elected PDP Local Government Council officials by Governor Masari on allegation of financial misappropriation of councils funds is unconstitutional and gave consequential orders by directing that the unlawfully dissolved elected PDP Council officials be paid all their entitlements from the date of their illegal dissolution to the date they were supposed to vacate office.
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Governor Masari in July, 2015 unlawfully dissolved Katsina State duly elected PDP Council officials on allegation of misappropriation of Local Governments funds; an action the Supreme Court has said is unlawful.
( Editor, Omor Bazuaye)
