The People’s Democratic Party in Kano state has queried the jurisdiction of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission to impose nomination fees on aspirants across political parties for the October local government election in the state.
Deputy governorship candidate of the PDP in the 2023 election in the state, Yusuf Bello-Suleiman who commended the court for stopping the electoral body from collecting nomination fees from contestants, says the move is not known to law.
The Kano State Independent Electoral commission recently pegged nomination fees for aspirants for the office of chairmen and councillors positions for the local government election to ten million and five million naira respectively across political parties.
Yusuf Bello-Suleiman, a former deputy governorship candidate said the state electoral body has overstepped its boundaries and hailed the court judgement stopping the charge of nomination fee on aspirants.
On the current economic realities currently confronting Nigerians, Yusuf Bello said the PDP would have managed the energy crises currently rocking the country better than what the APC led government is doing
He therefore called on president Bola Tinubu not to progress in error in the handling of the economy, rather urged him to immediately retrace his steps on the fuel subsidy removal by adopting the late President Musa Yar’Adua template of economic management.
Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie
