The Peoples Democratic Party has urged a court to sack Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State for taking up another executive position as the caretaker chairman of the All Progressives Congress .
In the suit filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, the PDP argues that combining the governor’s office with another executive position is a constitutional violation. The Yobe State governor’s office and that of the deputy governor, Idi Gubana, have therefore become vacant after Mr Buni took up the APC appointment, the PDP said.
The opposition party asked that its governorship candidate in the 2019 election, Umar Damagum, and his running mate, Baba Aji, should be sworn in as replacements for Mr Buni and his deputy.of some pages of the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/885/2021 on its website on Thursday. The court document shows the PDP, along with Messrs Damagum and Aji, as the plaintiffs who jointly instituted the suit.Independent National Electoral Commission The governor was appointed the chairman of the APC’s Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee in June 2020 following the crisis that led to the exit of the party’s former chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.
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