Magistrate orders arrest of LG chairmanship candidate Kaduna

The Daura Road Chief Magistrates' Court in Kaduna, on Thursday ordered the arrest of the PDP chairmanship candidate for Soba Local Council, Kawu Yakassai, barely two days to the election.
Yakassai was standing trial over alleged certificate forgery and failure to honour summons of the court.
Chief magistrate Hamza Mohammed, who had to adjourn the sittings of the court three times in order to allow the accused to be present in court, finally issued a warrant of arrest against Yakassai at about 6 p.m.
Yakassai was dragged to the court by Musa Mustapha and Ubale Matasa who alleged that the secondary school certificate he presented for the election was fake.
The defence counsel,  D I Habib had claimed that the accused was ill and the magistrate requested for medical certificate.
Mohammed, however, rejected the certificate tendered due to irregular signatures.
``I have noticed that the two medical reports presented were from one medical officer, Dr Mohammed Kabir, but I also noticed two different signatures on the medical certificates.
``The accused is not on admission in any hospital to warrant his absence in court, in this circumstance, the court finds  the submission of the defence counsel insufficient and therefore issues a warrant for the arrest of the accused person.''  Mohammed adjourned the case to Dec. 3, for hearing.