The Chairman of Chanchaga Local Government Area in Niger State, Alhaji Aminu Yakubu-Ladan, has dragged the Niger State Government to court over an alleged illegal attempt to reduce the constitutionally guaranteed tenure of local government chairmen and councillors.
Yakubu-Ladan is asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to declare Section 29(2) of the Niger State Local Government Law, 2001 (as amended), which limits LG officials’ tenure to three years, as unconstitutional and inconsistent with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act, 2022.