Governors outstay their welcome in Nigeria
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TABJ – Jan 27 - Nigeria’s Supreme Court has announced that it has fired five governors on the board who overstayed their tenures.
Governors of Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Adamawa and Sokoto states should have left their offices in May last year, according to Justice Walter Onnoghen.
These governors came into office in May 2007 for supposed four-year tenures, but their elections were annulled, and a re-election led to them taking a second oath of office in 2008.
The five governors had been exempted from having to face elections in April 2011 after a lower court’s ruling two months before which stated that their tenures had begun in 2008, rather than 2007.
However, the Supreme Court now says that it is unconstitutional for any person to hold office for longer than four years.
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