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The major opposition political party in Kano, the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday instituted a fresh suit against the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, before the Federal High Court sitting in Kano.


The party is asking the court to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from releasing voter register for the conduct of the council poll.

The plaintiffs, APC and the party Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, instituted the suit through their counsel, Ismail Abdulaziz.

They also sought an interlocutory application to restrain the state electoral body from continuing with the process and conduct of the council election slated for October 26.

Defendants joined in the suit include the Kano State Attorney-General; Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC; Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC; Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF; KANSIEC Chairman, Sani Lawan, and other members.

Abdulaziz said, “We are asking for the court to interpret some provisions of the constitution, KANSIEC guidelines, the law itself in seeking whether KANSIEC is a revenue-generating agency and considering that the N9 million and N4 million requested to be paid by chairmanship and councillorship candidates by KANSIEC were exorbitant.


“We want the court to determine whether KANSIEC will be impartial looking at present members that constituted the commission.

“We are also seeking the court to order INEC not to release election materials such as voter register to KANSIEC until the commission abide by the provision of the constitution.

“We now sought for interlocutory injunction to restrain the continuation of the process and conduct of the election. The defendants did not receive our processes and the court adjourned till next Friday so that all the parties to file their responses,” Abdulaziz said.

Moving the application before the Presiding Judge, Justice Simon Amobeda, on Friday, the court adjourned the matter till October 11, and ordered the plaintiffs to serve the defendants.

Jurisdiction
Meanwhile, in a related matter, the Counsels to Kano State government, Rilwanu Umar (SAN) and Kano State House of Assembly, Bashir Yusuf, said they have filed a preliminary objections before the Justice Amobeda challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear matters concerning KANSIEC.

The counsel said only state high court and state assembly have the powers to entertain any matter that border on regulations of KANSIEC and not federal agency or so.

Kano state government application came in response to motion on notice moved by APC and one Aliyu Aminu Tiga on why the court should not stop the conduct of the election.

Recall one Aminu Aliyu Tiga and the APC had earlier filed an application seeking the court to stop the electoral body from conducting the elections in which Justice Amobeda, in the interim, refused to grant.


However henoted that the defendants shall be put on notice to show cause why the prayers shall not be granted.

The Court, presided by Justice Simon Amobeda, adjourned the matter till October 11 for hearing.

shivisee:
Baba regardless of what obituary and his rodents says about you,you have fulfilled your mission here on earth. You are human! Let’s see how the deranged local Anambra idiot and his nitwits will end! when a failure that called himselves a pastor in anambra said 'he wished the wife of the president had strangled him,in his sleep. obi and his nuisances celebrated it! but God is wonderful,he knows how to humble and enslaved the wicked! nnmadi kanu and ojukwu case is a very good example!

Bluntemperor:
We know the way of the Obedient recruiters and PDP apologies -on Social Media,as Agents - that anything not from IPOB Members is never genuine, forgetting that many are sane Nigerians,in their Millions.
In Politics,it's about Permanent Interests,No Permanent Enemies,so Reno is just acting so!

yyba:
Stupid confused man , FUBARA you like it or not you must obey court orders

CyrusVI:



The IGP should be smart enough not to allow himself to be dragged into this

Some things dont fit your role...being dragged into a mud fight like this is one of them

Penguin2:
Tunji Disu has built a stellar reputation for himself that he wouldn’t want to damage because he wants to play Wike’s script.

I guess that’s why they redeployed him to bring in a rogue Commissioner of Police that would do their bidding.

A Deputy Commissioner of Police leading rogues to break into a government agency and steal things like common criminals.

Please can we know the name of the ijiot?

Meanwhile, you will still fools here cheering the rogue police officers on.

One thing is certain, someday, and soon, Nigeria will be delivered from the hands of the rogues that have grabbed power.

Racoon:
This is Reno Omokri reward for betraying Atiku and attacking Peter Obi? Reno you will forever go down in infamy?

Babangidapikin:
you not providing security does not mean the election won't hold, the people would secure themselves.

vanitybutiwanti:
Ask your father igbo man, I have nothing to say to you. Keep having sleepless night over Rivers affairs.

vanitybutiwanti:
I'm from Rivers State Mr meddlesome interloper

Babangidapikin:
wetin concern Federal Government with State elections if not executive recklessness.

CoronaVirusPro:
Fvck Fubara!

helinues:
Leave shalaye and answer the simple straight question

Some of you just like to argue for arguing sake

helinues:
Tell us the name of the person from Kwara and Kogi who were once Afenifere general leader

Una too dey play politics with everything due to fixated mindset

helinues:
Na where the issue dey.

Why can't the Igbo restrict the Ohaneze Ndigbo title to only 5 SE states.

No disrespecting but you see those SS Igbo's, it's only when they need a favour from Igbo's in general they always remember they are Igbo

thisisit:
MISPLACED PRIORITY.... TINUBU AND HIS GANG SHOULD REVERSE PETROL PRICE TO WHERE IT WAS....PETROL FIRST BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.

larride:
Towards ending the ongoing ASUU strike, the
Federal Government has committed to spending
N200 billion in the 2014 budget on the universities as well as on each of the next three four years until the universities are brought to world-class standard as demanded by ASUU leadership. This is in addition to the N100 billion dedicated and already made available...

Government has also increased to N40billion as a
first installment, funds for payment of earned allowances to the striking lecturers, an improvement from the N30 billion previously released.

This information is contained in an internal statement at the Federal University of Otuoke by Professor Bolaji Aluko, its Vice-Chancellor. On the earned allowances, Prof. Aluko said “Government will top it up with further releases once universities are through with the disbursement of this new figure of N40 million, so Vice-Chancellors are urged to expedite this disbursement within the shortest possible time using guiding templates that have been sent by the CVC.”

Professor Aluko said the development followed
meetings on September 19 and Oct 11 of
representatives of the Association of Vice-
Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, led by Prof.
Hamisu of ATBU and ASUU reps led by its President, Dr. N. Fagge with the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Arc. Namadi. Sambo, Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike and others.

In the interest of peace, Vice-President Sambo appealed to ASUU to call off the strike and apologized over the "take-it-or-leave-it" comments made by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala.

Other points of agreement at the meetings include the following:

Project Prioritization: Universities will now be
allowed to determine their priorities and not be
“rail-roaded” into implementing a pre-determined set of projects with respect to the NEEDS assessment. Decisions are not to be centralized.

TETFund Intervention: Government assured that the operations of the TETFund will not be impaired, and that the regular TETFund intervention disbursement to Universities will continue, unaffected. So the NEEDS assessment capital outlays are in addition to regular TETFund intervention.

Project Monitoring: A new Implementation
Monitoring Committee (IMC) for the NEEDS
Assessment intervention for universities has been set up to take over from the Suswan Committee. The new one is under the Federal Ministry of Education and chaired by the Honorable Minister of Education. In addition, to build confidence and ensure faithful implementation and prevent any relapse as before, the Vice President will meet quarterly with the IMC to monitor progress.

Blueprint: ASUU was mandated to submit a blue
print for revitalizing the Universities to the Vice
President. ASUU leadership will now meet to decide if the government should be trusted again, this time.

http://www.nigeriaonpoint.com/2013/10/fg-finally-agrees-to-meet-asuus-demands.html

VeryDarkMan then read one of Omokri's past posts about Tinubu and asked, "Reno Omokri, what are you doing with someone you once called a drug lord? Do you want to learn how to sell drugs? I'm just curious, o; it's none of my business! You can clearly see that you lack integrity.

By the way, I won’t pretend I didn't know that you begged a lot of people to help you meet Tinubu. I saw many people you pleaded with to arrange a meeting.
In 2023, you were campaigning for Atiku. I know politics is a dirty game, but at least have some integrity."

vanitybutiwanti:
Igbo man sharaap, you are always on threads that has wike and fubaras name in it. Mind your Damn business.

muykem:
He was consistently calling Nigeria a zoo until he was successfully tamed by former president Buhari. He is enjoying the zoo till now. UK has forgotten their citizen in Nigeria zoo. We must learn a lesson.

Benbellamor:
As if you are somebody, Obidients has placed Fubara on an Ant Horse drunk like never before, even his mouth cant be shut...ode

vanitybutiwanti:
Two thieves but igbos who claim to be saints are now supporting one of the thieves? You better tell peter obi your brother to invest the money he set aside for 2027 on his supporters because from the way you guys defend misdemeanours of people you claim to support, Nothing and nobody can remove APC in 2027, its only a fhool that will reliquish power in Nigeria, Tinubu til eternity