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THE Supreme Court on Friday declared the dissolution of local government councils in Oyo and Katsina states and their replacement with caretaker committees as illegal and unconstitutional.
The five-man panel of Justices of the apex court set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Ibadan which approved the sack of the elected council officials in Oyo State by the governor, Mr Seyi Makinde.
It said the governor erred by sacking the elected council officials and replacing them with caretaker committees.
The sacked chairpersons, led by Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye, had approached the court to vindicate them, saying they were illegally sacked.
Katsina: Supreme Court annuls Masari’s sack of 34 elected PDP chairmen, six years after
The Supreme Court of Nigeria, Friday, has declared Governor Bello Masari’s sack of 34 duly elected PDP local government chairmen as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.
The apex court in its ruling, said Governor Masari’s dissolution of the 34 duly elected PDP local government council chairmen as well as councilors on allegation of financial misappropriation of council’s funds is illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.
The judgement, which was delivered via zoom by the apex court in the suit marked SC 244/218, Abubakar Ibrahim Yantaba and others vs Governor of Katsina State, granted the appeal and set aside the judgment of Court of Appeal.
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The Supreme Court of Nigeria, Friday, has declared Governor Bello Masari’s sack of 34 duly elected PDP local government chairmen as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.
The apex court in its ruling, said Governor Masari’s dissolution of the 34 duly elected PDP local government council chairmen as well as councilors on allegation of financial misappropriation of council’s funds is illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.
The judgement, which was delivered via zoom by the apex court in the suit marked SC 244/218, Abubakar Ibrahim Yantaba and others vs Governor of Katsina State, granted the appeal and set aside the judgment of Court of Appeal.
In the lead judgment by Justice Ejembi Eko, the Supreme Court said Governor Makinde’s sacking of 33 LG chairmen and 35 Local Government Development Areas in the state was beyond his powers.
Justice Eko noted that the governor’s dissolution of democratically elected chairmen and councillors and replacing them with caretakers was taken despite a subsisting court order and a breach of Section 7(1) of the 1999 Constitution.
Consequently, it invoked its original jurisdiction under Section 22 of the Supreme Court Act and voided the earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal, which had validated Governor Makinde’s action on the grounds that the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) had no reasonable cause of action.
By Francis Sardauna
The Chairman of the Administrative Committee inaugurated by the Katsina State Government to unravel the cause(s) of the mysterious fire that gutted the Katsina Central Market, Alhaji Tasi’u Dandagoro, has revealed that the inferno destroyed properties worth N902.1 million in the market.
Dandagoro, while submitting the committee’s report to Governor Aminu Bello Masari at the Government House Wednesday, said poor and rampant electricity connections were responsible for the inferno.
He explained that 685 traders were directly affected by the disaster, while 605 shops were destroyed and 59 traders that were on attachment were also affected by the fire incident.