The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will return to court on Thursday to
request the substituted service of the recall petition and documents on the
Senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye.
The Commission said this became
necessary after efforts to formally serve Senator Melaye the petition it
received from his constituents to recall him met a brick wall.
INEC’s Director of Voter
Education and Publicity Department, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, made this known on
Tuesday night.
He said officials of the
commission and the bailiff of the Federal High Court had stormed the Senate to
serve Senator Melaye, but his office was locked.
Osaze-Uzzi, in a phone interview
with Seun Okinbaloye on Channels Television’s programme ‘Politics Today’, said:
“Well, the bailiff of the Federal High Court, on behalf of the commission, went
to attempt to serve Senator Melaye this afternoon, but Senator Melaye refused
to accept service from the bailiff of the court.”
Consequently, officials of the
commission and the bailiff dropped bags containing the petition and
accompanying documents in front of the office and waited for several minutes to
serve Senator Melaye.
Osaze-Uzzi explained that the
development meant that the commissioner will head back to court.
“You will recall that in his
statement he said documents were not made available to him. We have tried to
make the documents available to him through the court and the court bailiff but
he has declined to accept the service.
“So, on Thursday we will report
back to court what has transpired and probably ask for substituted service,” he
said.
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