The Federal High Court has sacked all the 44 chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the Kano State local government elections scheduled for Saturday,
The ruling was delivered in Kano on Friday by Simon Amobeda in a case filed by Muhammad Babayo and a faction of the NNPP challenging the party’s leadership.
Mr Amobeda ordered the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) to accept a new list of candidates submitted by the faction led by the recognised state chairman of the party, Dalhatu Usman.
“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 declared.
The case listed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), KANSIEC, the Inspector General of Police, and the Director of the Department of State Services (DSS) as defendants.
The federal high court had earlier sacked the KANSIEC chairman,…