The absence of the eleventh Protection Counsel, John Baiyeshea, SAN, on Tuesday stalled the listening to in a swimsuit looking for to cease statutory allocations to the 44 Native Authorities Councils of Kano State.
The candidates, Abdullahi Abbas, Aminu Aliyu-Tiga, and the All Progressives Congress (APC), by way of their counsel, Sunday Olowomoran, filed a movement *ex parte* dated Oct. 28 and filed on Nov. 1, 2024.
The respondents within the swimsuit embody the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), the Income Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Fee (RMAFC), the Accountant-Common of the Federation, the Minister of Finance, the Auditor-Common of the Federation, and the Lawyer-Common of the Federation.
Others are the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), the Kano State Authorities, the Lawyer-Common of Kano State, the Kano State Impartial Electoral Fee (KANSIEC), and the 44 Kano Native Governments.
The candidates are looking for a declaration that the twelfth to fifty fifth respondents weren’t democratically elected and constituted pursuant to Part 7(1) of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended.
They’re additionally asking the courtroom to restrain the Federal Authorities, the CBN, and the Accountant-Common from disbursing statutory funds to Kano’s 44 Native Authorities Councils.
When the case got here up for listening to, Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Kano, knowledgeable the courtroom that counsel to KANSIEC, Baiyeshea, was indisposed, citing medical causes.
The choose famous that Baiyeshea had despatched a letter requesting an adjournment.
Amobeda ordered that each one functions requiring responses be filed and prepared earlier than the subsequent adjourned date.
He adjourned the matter till March 4 for listening to.
Earlier, counsel to the Kano State Lawyer-Common, Femi Falana, SAN, knowledgeable the courtroom that the plaintiffs had served them with six processes that morning.
Falana, alongside Adegboyega Awomolo, SAN, counsel to the Kano State Authorities; B. D. Uche, counsel to the primary, third, and seventh respondents; and H. M. Ma’aruf, didn’t object to the adjournment.
Responding, Mr. Sadiqu Sammani-Lawan, representing events looking for to be joined within the swimsuit, stated: “The curiosity of my purchasers is key.
“My purchasers are the Nationwide Union of Native Authorities Staff (NULGE), the Nationwide Union of Academics, and well being staff.
“The allocation from the Federal Authorities goes instantly to those staff, who’re greater than 60,000 within the state. If they don’t seem to be joined on this swimsuit, there shall be an issue,” he stated.
NAN reviews that the courtroom, on Oct. 23, halted the conduct of the Native Authorities Councils’ election scheduled for Oct. 26, 2025, till KANSIEC was correctly reconstituted, because it had beforehand been dissolved by the courtroom for partisanship.
(NAN)
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