The Court of Appeal in Abuja has fixed April 8,2025 for hearing and determination of suits arising from the conduct of elections into the 44 Local Government Areas of Kano State.
The appellate court on Monday fixed the new date after resolving several motions on notices that accompanied the substantive matters.
The Kano State House of Assembly had approached the Court of Appeal to void and set aside the judgment of the Federal High Court in Kano, which restrained the conduct of the election since October last year.
The House of Assembly represented by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Adegboyega Awomolo predicated his call for the declaration of the court’s judgment null and void on five major grounds.
The House of Assembly maintained that the Federal High Court has no jurisdiction to dabble into local government conduct in Kano State and that the suit filed by Aminu Aliyu Tiga and the All Progressives Congress (APC), was statute barred at the time it was filed and that the two plaintiffs have no locus standi to have instituted the case.
Justice Simon Amobeda had on October 22, 2024 stopped the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission from conducting any election for councillors and chairmen of the 44 Local Government Areas of the state, until conditions precedents were met as required by law.
Aggrieved by the decisions of the court, the Kano State House of Assembly approached the court of appeal in Abuja, praying for an order to set aside the findings and decisions of Justice Amobeda issued against them.
Their position is that the local government election conduct is entirely the affairs of the Kano State Government and that only the Kano State High Court can adjudicate over any matter arising from local government election conduct and not the Federal High Court
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
