A private lawyer and member of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Barrister Mohammed Kanoma, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Gusau, Zamfara State, challenging the ban on political gatherings and rallies in the state, claiming the action is unconstitutional.
According to Barrister Kanoma, the state governor’s ban on political gatherings is an infringement on his constitutional rights and the rights of all the political parties who are supposed to be promoting their party’s ideologies.
The presiding judge, Justice Salim O. Ibrahim, adjourned the matter to allow the two other respondents who could not make appearances in court, time to come before he proceeds with the case.
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The applicant told journalists that his prayers were to seek the court to give an order of perpetual injunction, restraining all the respondents from enforcing what he termed, an illegal ban, and to declare it null and void, as it is unconstitutional, and, therefore, should not be allowed to stand.
Barrister Kanoma said he filed the suit for himself, and on behalf of all the political parties in Zamfara State.
The respondents are the Zamfara State Governor Dauda Lawal, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Abdulazeez Sani, SAN, and the Commissioner of Police, Zamfara State.
( Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe )
