PDP Begins Legal Moves To Sack Buni As Governor

The People’s Democratic Party ( PDP) has launched legal moves to remove Governor Mai Buni of Yobe State from office upon an alleged violation of the 1999 Constitution barring governors from holding two offices at the same time.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the court action is coming against the background of the recent Supreme Court judgment on the Ondo State governorship election.

The crux of the suit is that Buni is Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) and at the same time governor of Yobe State.

The Supreme Court jurists in the body of that judgment had frowned at Buni holding the office of chairman of the APC while serving as governor of Yobe State.

Thisday reports that the PDP in the suit dated and filed August 12, is specifically alleging that Buni violated section 183 of the constitution when as a governor he accepted to serve as Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The plaintiffs which include Umar Damagum and Babai in the suit filed by Emeka Etiaba, SAN, insisted that Buni ceased to be governor of Yobe State from the moment he accepted to act as APC Caretaker Committee Chairman.

The plaintiffs therefore asked the court for an order directing the Yobe State Chief Judge or any other senior person next to the Chief Judge to immediately swear in Damagum and Aji as Governor and Deputy Governor of Yobe State, being candidates of the PDP which came second in the 2019 governorship election in Yobe State in the place of Buni.

Source: Thisday

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