The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room has urged the National Judicial Council to urgently put a stop to the spate of questionable court injunctions aimed at scuttling the electoral process.
While addressing a press conference on Friday regarding the expectations for the rerun elections, the Convener of the Situation Room, Mr. Clement Nwankwo said the use of courts to stall collation and announcement of election results had assumed a worrisome dimension. “Situation Room will additionally like to express concern about the emerging trend of escalating judicial involvement in what should ordinarily be matters outside the purview of the courts across the country. “The courts have gotten involved in electoral litigations and disputations in a manner that weakens the credibility of our electoral system issuing perplexing orders and injunctions that constrains INEC’s ability to fulfill its constitutional functions of conducting elections.