The Sokoto State’s High Court has issued an order restraining Governor Ahmed Aliyu from sacking two of the 15 District Heads his government has earlier removed from their seats.
The order was sought separately by Buhari Dahiru Tambuwal and Abubakar Kassim, the District Heads of Tambuwal and Kebbe respectively, who are among the rulers removed by the Sokoto State Government, on the allegation of insubordination and aiding insecurity in the state
The presiding judge, Justice Kabiru Ibrahim Ahmed, however, ordered the Governor of Sokoto State, his Attorney General and the Sokoto Sultanate Council to revert to status quo, pending the determination of the suit filed before him by the complainants, who were represented by Prof Ibrahim Abdullahi SAN.
Justice Ahmed, through two orders, directed the defendants, their agents servants, privies or assigns or any person acting on their behalves to “maintain status quo and or stay all actions and or further actions in connection with all matters dealing with and or appertaining to the removal and or dethronement of
Districts Heads in Sokoto State”.
The judge said all actions be stayed particularly those of Kebbe and Tambuwal, pending the hearing and determination of the motion for interlocutory injunction duly filed before the court.
The development is coming as the state government bill for the amendment of the Local Government Law, affecting the appointment of district and village heads, to confer the government with exclusive power to appoint traditional rulers.
