The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to sack the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, for taking up another executive position as the caretaker chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In the suit filed on Thursday, the PDP argued that combining the position of Governor with another executive position is a constitutional violation.
The opposition party said the Yobe State governor’s office and that of the deputy governor, Idi Gubana, have therefore become vacant after Buni took up the APC appointment.
The PDP also asked that the PDP governorship candidate in the 2019 election, Umar Damagum, and his running mate, Baba Aji, should be immediately sworn in as replacements for Buni and his deputy.
Listed as defendants in the suit are Buni, his deputy, Gubana and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The court document shows the PDP, along with Messrs Damagum and Aji, as the plaintiffs who jointly instituted the suit.
Governor Buni was appointed the chairman of the APC’s Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) in June 2020 following the crisis that led to the exit of the party’s former chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.
