BREAKING: Court Sacks All NNPP Candidates Ahead Kano LG Elections on Saturday


In a dramatic ruling, the Federal High Court in Kano has disqualified all 44 chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) ahead of the local government elections scheduled for Saturday. The judgment, delivered on Friday by Justice Simon Amobeda, stems from a legal challenge led by Engineer Muhammad Babayo and a faction of the NNPP against the party’s current leadership.


Justice Amobeda mandated the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) to accept a new list of candidates submitted by the faction led by the recognized State Chairman, Dalhatu Shehu Usman, in alignment with the NNPP’s constitution. “The defendant is hereby restrained from releasing the voters register for the 2nd Defendant to conduct the proposed election on 26th October 2024,” the judge ruled. He further directed KANSIEC to recognize the revised list of candidates submitted by the plaintiffs.


The case, which named the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), KANSIEC, the Inspector General of Police, and the Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) as defendants, has thrown the Kano local government elections into uncertainty. The court barred security agencies from providing protection at polling stations should the election proceed without the updated candidate list.


Justice Amobeda declared that “the 2nd Defendant is hereby directed to accept as genuine and subsisting the list of NNPP candidates submitted to it by the recognized State Chairman, Dalhatu Shehu Usman.” He further ruled that “any other list submitted for the 2024 Local Government Election in Kano State should be rejected.”


Moreover, the Inspector General of Police and the DSS were instructed not to offer security for the election under the existing conditions. “That the 3rd and 4th Defendants are forthwith restrained from providing security and protection to the scene of the Election plans to take place on the 26th October, 2024,” Justice Amobeda ruled.


This judgment has sparked further controversy around the upcoming elections, leaving KANSIEC and NNPP candidates in a state of limbo just a day before the polls.

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