Ebonyi LG polls: Court restrains Umahi from appointing caretaker committees

DAILY POST reports that one Mr. Otu Collins Eleri, Nelson Eze and three others dragged the Independent National electoral commission, INEC, the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission, EBSIEC, and the Ebonyi State government to the Court, challenging the outcome of the local government areas election conducted on 30th July, 2022.

Justice Riman, also in his ruling, stated that the tenure of office of Local Government Area Chairmen in Ebonyi State remains three years and that the tenure of the current chairmen will expire in August, 2023. “That the 3rd defendant lacks the vires, authority, enablement etc to appoint Caretakers. Caretaker Committees and/or anybody or persons by whatsoever name or nomenclature called that are unelected democratically to run, manage, superintend, etc, the affairs of the 13 Local Government Areas of Ebonyi State.

Court would have pursue this wicked man out of office

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