The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to refrain from any actions that could disrupt law and order regarding the contentious local government elections in the state.
In a statement on Friday, Abdullahi Abbas, chairman of the APC’s Kano State chapter, criticized Governor Yusuf’s remarks at a rally in Kano on Thursday, describing them as inappropriate for someone in his position as the state’s chief security officer.
During the rally at Sani Abacha Stadium, the governor told supporters of the ruling New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) that nothing could prevent the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) from proceeding with the local government elections scheduled for Saturday, October 26.
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The APC has called on the state government to comply with the Federal High Court’s directive in Kano, presided over by Justice Simon Amobeda, which on Tuesday barred KANSIEC from holding the elections, citing the unfitness of the agency’s chairman, secretary, and commissioners for their roles.
The party stated that the governor’s call for NNPP supporters to disregard the court directive constitutes a clear invitation to anarchy and lawlessness.
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“The Governor should simply respect the laws. As law-abiding citizens interested in the growth of our dear state of Kano, the Governor should desist from any act that could throw the state into chaos. Inciting people to take the laws into their hand is not the hallmark of good leadership,” the party noted.
Justice Amobeda also prohibited INEC from providing the voter register to KANSIEC and ordered security agencies, including the police, DSS, and Civil Defence, not to participate in the proposed elections.
The court ruled that the KANSIEC chairman and other commission members were active members of the ruling NNPP and did not meet the requirement of being civil servants above grade level 14, rendering them unfit for their positions.
The court determined that the defendants’ status as card-carrying members of the NNPP and their involvement in partisan politics violated Section 197 (1) (b) and Section 200 (1) (a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), disqualifying them from holding such positions within the state electoral body.
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