AN association under the auspices of Nigeria Democracy Working Group has condemned the sacking of the Chairman, Kano Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) by a Federal High Court on Tuesday.
It will be recalled that “Justice Amobeda had on Tuesday sacked the Chairman and five other members of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KNSIEC), barely three days to the date for the conduct of the Local Government Councils Elections after case filed by a political party against them”
The main reason for sacking the electoral body was based on the fact that the chairman of KANSIEC, is discovered to be a card carrying member of the ruling party- New Nigeria People Party ( NNPP)
The ruling then potray that ” This
automatically indicated that as a member of the party-NNPP,he may not be fair to other political parties contesting for political position with the party , as the court discovered that the KANSIEC’ s chairman, is also a card carrying member
For an election to be free, fair and without been bias,an umpire saddled with the responsibility of conducting election,must therefore not belonging to any political party contesting the same election
However a statement jointly signed by Dr. Vincent Okpara Innocent, Convener and Dr. Idris A. Mohammed Co – Convener, the group condemned the ‘incessant Judicial Recklessness by Federal High Court Judges in Kano.”
The statement reads” the Judges who are supposedly on a mission to truncate democracy and jeopardize the peace and security of Kano state must be called to order immediately.”
However,” The group says it is mobilizing 1,000 organizations across the country to file a petition against Justice Simon Amobeda to checkmate his excesses in particular.
“As we condemn this judgment in totality as insensitive, anti – people, anti – democracy, anti – social justice, emotionally loaded, we call on all Nigerian citizens to condemn the judgment as irrational, miscarriage of justice and ill – timed”the statement said
The statement further emphasised”
We are compelled to follow the path of true and objective democratic leaders who have steadily observed that, the courts judgments in many politically related cases in Nigeria in recent times, are turning the Nigerian democracy, upside down, reducing the country to a laughing stock as well as damaging the little integrity of the Institution, a body which was supposedly considered to be hallowed”
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