Appeal Court Adjourns Kano LG Election Case to April 8

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has set April 8, 2025, as the date for hearing and ruling on cases related to the local government elections conducted across Kano State’s 44 Local Government Areas.

The appellate court made the decision on Monday after addressing multiple motions filed alongside the main appeal.

The Kano State House of Assembly had approached the Court of Appeal to challenge the ruling of the Federal High Court in Kano, which had halted the conduct of the elections since October 2024.

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Adegboyega Awomolo, representing the House of Assembly, argued that the Federal High Court had no jurisdiction over local government elections in Kano State. He further contended that the suit filed by Aminu Aliyu Tiga and the All Progressives Congress (APC) was statute-barred and that the plaintiffs lacked the legal right to pursue the case.

On October 22, 2024, Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court had issued an order preventing the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission from conducting elections for chairmen and councillors until all legal conditions were met.

Dissatisfied with the ruling, the Kano State House of Assembly took the matter to the Court of Appeal, seeking to overturn the decision. They maintained that local government elections fall solely under the jurisdiction of the Kano State Government and that only the Kano State High Court has the legal authority to preside over election-related disputes, not the Federal High Court.