Jigawa LG poll: Your actions illegal – Lamido slams Governor Abubakar

Former Jigawa State Gorvernor, Sule Lamido, has condemned incumbent Governor Mohammad Badaru Abubakar for disregarding court order on the just-concluded local government election.
Lamido, who lamented the “total disregard for the rule of law and rubbishing the authority of court”, wondered how a democratically elected government would flagrantly defy a clear position of the judiciary.

On Sunday, the Jigawa State Independent Electoral Commission (JISIEC) declared as winners, APC chairmanship candidates in all the 27 Local Government Areas of the state that contested Saturday’s council polls.
​A​ press statement signed by the Chairman of JISIEC, Alhaji Ahmed Sani, said the APC candidates won the elections ‘unopposed’.

Reacting, Lamido told newsmen in his country home, Bamaina in Birnin Kudu Local Government Area, that Badaru had diminished the dignity of the office of the governor and become a source of embarrassment to the state.

“Once courts are rubbished, they lose what they have as authority. It is a dangerous precedence for government to be involved in court contempt,” he said.
In his remark, former gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in the state, Malam Aminu Ringim, described the election as an illegal exercise.
“As law-abiding citizens, we did not participate in the election because of the court order, so this is an illegal election.

“We are therefore waiting till Sept​ember ​20, the date the court has set aside to hear the substantive case we filed before the it,” he said.