The judgment in respect of the case filed by the incorporated Trustee of Elite Network for Sustainable Development was delivered today, the 8th of October, 2021.
In the judgment, the court sacked the 16 Transitional Implementation Committee Chairmen of the state’s local governments.
Justice Hassan. A . Gegele, described “the action of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and the state government as executive rascality and abuse of office.”
The court agreed that ”the Kwara State government suspended the democratically elected local government councils and then replaced them with an illegal TIC that is not known to any law.”
However, the Kwara State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice Salman Jawondo Esq. said the government would appeal.
“We wish to state that the reasoning of the trial judge is not a finality on the issue as it is subject to appeals at the higher benches, up to the Supreme Court. This allowance is guaranteed under our law.
“In exercise of its right of appeal as enshrined under the 1999 constituion as amended, the state government intends to explore that right. It will also, as allowed under the law, seek immediate stay of execution of the judgment of the trial Court,” he said.
