Group cautions Lagos govt against conducting election in 37 LCDAs
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) suit seeking to disqualify Senator Adetokunbo Abiru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from continuing to represent Lagos East Senatorial District.
A three-man panel of the court affirmed the March 1, 2021 decision of Justice Chukwuka Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Lagos, dismissing Babatunde Gbadamosi and the PDP’s suit for lacking merit.
Gbadamosi and the PDP had challenged Abiru’s eligibility to contest the election.
They sought disqualification of Abiru on the ground of double voter registration, residency, indigeneship and violation of Section 31 of the Electoral Act.
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Rejoinder
ON this page last week, I discussed the increased state of insecurity in Nigeria, following the mindless killing of a school pupil and the abduction of 27 others in Kagara, Niger State, on February 17, 2021, incessant killings by bandits and insurgents and general criminal activities all over the land, symptomatic of a failed state. It was like a prophecy foretold because exactly three days after, on February 26, 2021, 317 girls, aged 12-17 years old, were kidnapped by armed bandits who raided the Government Girls Science Secondary School boarding school, at Jangebe, in Zamfara State.
The location of the students remains largely unknown, amidst the controversy of their so-called release. It has become more like some kind of fiction, watching armed bandits, clerics and even state government officials hobnobbing together in the wild, openly discussing and negotiating ransom for the release of these innocent children.