Six Candidates Disqualified For ‘Failing’ Drug Test Over Kano LG Election

 

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Commander in Kano State, Dr. Ibrahim Abdul said the screening of the contender for the places of Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Councilors was in consistence with the State Government's structure to guarantee that no medication fanatic would be chosen into any open office. 

In front of the January 16 neighborhood government surveys in Kano State, the State's Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) on Wednesday said it precluded six applicants over their inability to breeze through its medication assessment. 

Day by day Trust reports that KAINSEC said it presented the obligatory medication test for all competitors competing for Chairmanship and Councillorship positions in the approaching Local Government decisions in view of the commonness of medication maltreatment in the state. 

The Chairman of the commission, Professor Garba Ibrahim Sheka, who affirmed this while addressing Daily Trust on his Commission's arrangements for the political race, said they have recognized six medication addicts among the applicants. 

He stated, "After the necessary medication trial by National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on all the competitors competing for the 44 Chairmen and 484 Councilors, six up-and-comers have been affirmed drug addicts and were excluded from the race. 

"All the affirmed addicts were challenging for councillorship openings. None is going for chairmanship. 

"Their gatherings are fortunate to have this week as a window period for them to substitute their substitutions as we won't permit any of them to challenge," Sheka said. 

The KANSIEC executive said they have acquainted the necessary test with ensure none of the recently chosen pioneers is dependent on medications along these lines decreasing medication maltreatment in the state. 

Prof. Sheka said they are hopeful the arrangement will fill in as an impediment to adolescents who are into drug mishandle and have future political aspiration to evade from the propensity because of a paranoid fear of being precluded. 

Notwithstanding, sources in NDLEA supposedly said 20 up-and-comers, not six as claimed by KANSIEC, have so far been affirmed drug addicts among the up-and-comers, including a few competitors from the decision All Progressives Candidates (APC).