Courtroom Stops Zamfara Meeting From Sacking Minority Chief 

The Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Gusau, Zamfara state, has halted the transfer by the state Home of  Meeting to sack the minority chief of the home, Hon Aliyu Ango Kagara, a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The minority chief, who’s from the opposition APC is representing Talata Mafara South constituency within the state Meeting.

This adopted a go well with No FHC/GSCS/10/2025 filed by the aggrieved member, Hon Aliyu Ango Kagara in opposition to the state’s Home of Meeting, the Speaker of the Home and the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) as first, second and third defendants respectively.

The court docket presided over by Justice Salim Olasupo Ibrahim has on Monday handed the judgment, difficult the sack of the APC lawmaker by the management of the state meeting.

The court docket granted an interim injunction restraining the third defendant, INEC, from conducting a bye-election for the Talata Mafara south constituency, which is at present being occupied by Hon Aliyu Ango Kagara.

Justice Olasupo additionally ordered that the established order be maintained pending listening to of the movement on discover and the substantive go well with earlier than the court docket.

The choose then adjourned the case to March 12, 2025.

It might be recalled that the state Home of Meeting has thus far suspended 9 members slicing throughout occasion strains, a scenario that has left the membership with lower than two-thirds of the bulk in passing payments.