…INEC insists poll must hold, denies ad hoc staff desertion
The suit comes on the heels of alleged mass resignation of ad hoc staff penciled by INEC for the Anambra State governorship election coming up on November 6, 2021. He stated: “I am the head of INEC in Anambra State. The true position of things is that we have more than enough manpower for the conduct of the forthcoming governorship election. This is authoritative.”
The implication of the suit is that in the event that any of the defendants wins the November 6 governorship poll before the matter is determined, a positive ruling by the court would invalidate their victory. “That the suit of the plaintiff against the defendants relates to nominations and sponsorships of candidates for the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, and more so on very concrete and reasonable grounds, which the plaintiff verily believe that some of the information supplied to the 9th and 10th defendants by both the defendants and their respective candidates for the election are manifestly false, misleading and in flagrant violation of their respective party guidelines in the...
“An order of declaration that the information contained in the affidavit presented by 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th defendants to INEC Form CF001 and other details on the nomination is false and misrepresentation of facts about their personal particulars or information of the candidates. Citing section 87 of the 2010 Electoral Act, the plaintiff stressed that the statute stipulates that candidates of political parties at an election can only be nominated at elective democratic process, adding that the law cast a duty upon the 9th and 10th defendants to monitor and keep record of the activities of political parties.
For PDP, the plaintiff averred that the party used delegate list made on June 25, 2021 for the party’s governorship primary held on June 26, 2021, pointing out that the said list was submitted to INEC after June 25, 2021 in contravention of the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.
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