Court grants 4-year tenure for Plateau LG chairmen

Plateau State High Court has ruled successful favour of section authorities chairmen, granting their request for a four-year tenure.

It nullified the contiguous two-year tenure arsenic contained successful the laws of the state.

The 17 section assembly chairmen had dragged the authorities authorities and the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission, PLASIEC, to tribunal seeking an hold of their tenure from 2 years to 4 years, citing a breach of the Nigerian Constitution.

In a landmark judgement delivered connected Friday by the authorities Chief Judge, Justice David Gwong Mannin, the tribunal declared that the two-year tenure provided by the laws of the authorities and PLASIEC is inconsistent with Section 7(1) of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended).

The judgement besides affirmed that the two-year tenure of the assembly chairmen contradicts law provisions guaranteeing a democratically elected section authorities system.

While delivering the ruling, Justice Maninn held that the two-year tenure contradicts sections of the Nigerian Constitution that warrant a democratically elected section authorities system, noting that the shorter tenure undermines the law model for section authorities medication and truthful cannot basal successful the look of the law provision.

The justice declared that the four-year tenure granted the elected section authorities chairmen successful the state, aligns their presumption with...