No Going Back On Saturday’s LG Elections– Gov Yusuf

Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, has said, “No retreat, no surrender” over the planned Saturday local government election in the state. This is despite a Federal High Court judgement voiding the poll over what it termed “having card-carrying NNPP members as executive officers of the election commission.” Governor Yusuf made the assertion Thursday […]

Court Sacks Kano Electoral Commission Chairman, Members, Stops LG Polls

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has disqualified the chairman and members of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, from conducting the scheduled local government elections in the state. The court ruled that the KANSIEC chairman and other members of the Commission are card carrying members of the ruling New Nigeria Peoples Party, […]