The Assistant Auditor of the All Progressives Party in Osun State , Tajudeen Adekunbi , and the Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance , Olatunji Popoola have asked the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo to disqualify the APC candidate in Osun West Senatorial District by - election, Senator Mudasiru Hussain.
Another member of the APC in the state, Mr . Basiru Adigun , and the two politicians filed a suit before the court asking for Hussain’s disqualification ahead of July 8 by - election on the grounds that he ( APC candidate) did not resign his appointment as a commissioner 30 days before the date of the poll .
Apart from the APC candidate, the plaintiffs joined the Independent National Electoral Commission ; Osun State Government ; Chairman of the APC screening committee for the by -election, Sanusi Rikiji and chairman of the appeal committee of the APC ,
Abdullahi Bello as defendants in the suit.
The plaintiffs claimed that Hussain did not resign 30 days before the date of the election as prescribed by the constitution , saying he should be disqualified based on the violation of the constitution .
In the originating summon and a sworn affidavit deposed to by the first plaintiff , Popoola, the plaintiff asked the court to determine whether the qualification for senatorial election is not governed by Section 65 and 66 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria , 1999 as amended .
The plaintiffs asked to “ Whether the disqualification of the 1st defendant ( Hussain) by the 3rd defendant ( Rikiji) and 4th defendant ( Bello ) is not in compliance with the term and tenure of Section 66 ( 1) (f ) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria , 1999 and APC 2014 guidelines for nomination of candidates for public office.
“ Whether the 5th defendant (INEC ) can validly accept the 1st defendant as the candidate of the 2nd defendant ( APC ) for the purpose of 8 th July 2017 Osun West Senatorial by - election, the 1 st defendant having not resigned his appointment from the public service of the 6 th defendant ( Osun State government ) as Commissioner in charge of cabinet matters less than 30 days before the said by - election.”
SPEECH DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT OPENING OF THE VOLUNTARY ASSETS AND INCOME DECLARATION SCHEME AT THE BANQUET HALL, STATE HOUSE ON THURSDAY JUNE 29, 2017 “When people pay taxes, they pay attention to what government is doing. There’s a level of social and political consciousness which people have when they pay taxes. So when people say that this is tax payers’ money that you are spending in that way, it is evident that it’s because this money is coming from their pockets that they are able to question political authority, question people who say there’re representing them and question government programmes as well”. “According to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, the total number of tax payers in Nigeria is just 14 million. Of this number, 96% have their taxes deducted at source from their salaries under the P.A.Y.E system while just 4% comply under...
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