Court restrains APC, PDP, 19 others from stopping KANSIEC from conducting LG election
A Kano State High Court presided by Justice Sunusi Ado Maaji has stopped the APC, PDP, and 19 other political parties from blocking the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) from collecting nomination forms fees.
SolaceBase reports that the parties were protesting the nomination fees of N10 million for chairmanship candidates and N5 million for councillorship positions fixed by KANSIEC.
Although after a federal high court sitting in Abuja restrained KANSIEC over the alleged high fees, the commission reduced the chairmanship nomination to N9m for chairmanship and N4m for councillors.
This decision comes ahead of the local government elections in Kano scheduled for October 26, 2024.
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The defendants in the suit are the Accord Party, Action Alliance, Action Democratic Party, African Democratic Congress, All Progressives Congress, Allied Peoples Movement, All Progressive Grand Alliance, Boot Party, Labour Party, National Rescue Movement, New Nigeria Peoples Party, Peoples Democratic Party, Peoples Redemption Party, Social Democratic Party, Young Progressive Party, Young Party and Zenith Labour Party.
The Kano High Court in an exparte order granted on September 24th, 2024, stopped the defendants or their agents from doing any act capable of scuttling the efforts of the plaintiff to organize, conduct and supervise the local government election in Kano pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice before the court.
The matter was then adjourned to October 10th, 2024. For the hearing of the motion on notice.
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