Abuja – The Supreme Court on Friday declared that no governor has the constitutional power to illegally terminate the tenure of democratically elected LG Chairmen and Councillors declaring the dissolution of the dully elected Local government Council Chairmen in Katsina and Oyo by their respective Governors as illegal.
In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro in a zoom conference, the Apex court directed that the unlawfully dissolved council officials be paid all their entitlements from the date of their illegal dissolution to the date they were to vacate office.
The apex court, therefore, set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal.