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Though without the participation of the major opposition party, All Progressive Congress (APC), the much publicised election into local government administration in Ondo state is in progress.
The electorates are expected to elect chairmen in the 18 local government areas and 203 wards.
The election is the first to be held since the incumbent Governor Olusegun Mimiko took over power in February 2009.
Mimiko had on assumption of office dissolved the elected council administration and replaced them with Caretaker committee that the state government review every six months.
On Thursday, the Federal Court of Appeal in Akure, the Ondo State capital struck out the case filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state stopping the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission from conducting local government election in the state.
The presiding judge, Justice Folashade Olubanjo, quoting copiously from several sections of the Nigerian Constitution and previously decided cases at the Supreme Court, said that the Federal High Court does not have the jurisdiction over matters involving the conduct of local government elections.
The electorates are expected to elect chairmen in the 18 local government areas and 203 wards.
The election is the first to be held since the incumbent Governor Olusegun Mimiko took over power in February 2009.
Mimiko had on assumption of office dissolved the elected council administration and replaced them with Caretaker committee that the state government review every six months.
On Thursday, the Federal Court of Appeal in Akure, the Ondo State capital struck out the case filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state stopping the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission from conducting local government election in the state.
The presiding judge, Justice Folashade Olubanjo, quoting copiously from several sections of the Nigerian Constitution and previously decided cases at the Supreme Court, said that the Federal High Court does not have the jurisdiction over matters involving the conduct of local government elections.
