Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting a fresh election to replace 14 Edo House of Assembly members-elect yet to be inaugurated to take their seats.
They had approached the court, seeking an order of interim injunction restraining INEC from conducting by-elections in respect of their seats in the Edo State House of Assembly purportedly declared vacant by the speaker on December 4, 2019, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.The suit dated December 10, 2019, has as respondents Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Honourable Frank Okiye and INEC as first and second defendants respectively.
Justice Mohammed also ordered that the enrolled order to show cause on motion ex-parte for an interim injunction, motion on notice for interlocutory injunction and the originating processes should be served on the respondents. Adeyemi, who told the court that INEC’s position on the matter was to be neutral, said the electoral umpire did not oppose the application filed by the plaintiffs.He hinted that he had not filed an affidavit in support of the commission’s position.
“File an affidavit and explain there even if it is two paragraphs, but not to stand at the bar and explain,” the judge said.
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