INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu
National chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has been summoned to look earlier than a Federal High Court or be charged for contempt.
This adopted the ruling by Justice Stephen Pam who dismissed a preliminary objection filed by the INEC chairman and the commission difficult the contempt go well with introduced in opposition to them by the Ejike Oguebego faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra state.
The trial choose in dismissing the appliance discounteced the place of the INEC chairman that the contempt go well with in opposition to him quantities to discussion board purchasing and an abuse of courtroom course of as a result of there may be a comparable go well with pending within the Federal High Court on the identical subject material.
But As said by Justice Pam, the submitting of two fits can't be categorised as tantamount to abuse of courtroom proceedings, it's filling the identical utility with totally different go well with numbers that constitutes an abuse and discussion board purchasing.
On the second motive adduced by the INEC chairman that the tenure of the candidates has elapsed, Justice Pam held that the Yakubu has not positioned any materials proof earlier than the courtroom to show its assertion that the tenure of the candidates had elapsed to say that they haven't any locus standi to file the go well with.
He also stated that in any case, the tenure of workplace is hardly related in a case as severe as that of contempt.
The trial choose concluded that the preliminary objection fails in its entirety and is dismissed.