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Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto, Sokoto State State Governor, has removed the Education Secretaries of the 23 local governments in his state, directing them to “hand over the affairs of their LGEA’s to the most senior officers in their respective Local Governments”.
A statement released yesterday (Wednesday) from the governor’s Press Secretary, Abubakar Bawa, saya the sack of the secretaries was with immediate effect.
The move came in the wake of Wednesday’s hearing at the Sokoto State Governorship Election Tribunal, which subpoenaed the Head Teacher of Town Model Primary School, Sabon Birni in Sabon Birni LGEA Ibrahim Abdullahi to testify in the case brought before it by PDP governorship candidate Sa’idu Umar, challenging the qualification of Ahmad Aliyu’s Deputy to contest in the 2023 election.
Sa’idu Umar is among other issues, challenging the eligibility of APC governorship running mate, Mohammed Idris Gobir, on the grounds that he did not attend primary school. Ibrahim Abdullahi was led by Counsel, S.I. Ameh SAN, in evidence and tendered the 1981 entrance school record and 1987 graduation school record, to prove that Gobir did not attend the school as he claimed.
During the cross examination, Abdullahi said he is the current school’s Head Teacher and narrated that the school name has changed from Town Primary School to Model Primary School.
The Tribunal Chairman, Justice Haruna Mshelia, admitted the certified true copies of the documents while the lead Respondents Counsel, Chief Jecob Ochidi, opposed the applications.
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Ahmad Aliyu’s immediate sacking of LGEA education secretaries on the same day, after the hearing is generally viewed in the state as a reprisal and pre-emptive move against such testimonies at the election tribunal, as the Governor is also facing a similar issue in the court concerning school attendance.
