A state high court in Yola has
barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the
supplementary governorship election for which it scheduled March 23 in Adamawa
State.
The Adamawa State High Court,
presided by Justice Abdulaziz Waziri, granted an interim injunction barring
INEC from conducting the supplementary polls in the 44 polling units where
voting either did not hold during the March 9 governorship election or was
cancelled
The high court judgement was
sequel to a suit filed by the governorship candidate of the Movement for the
Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRRD), Rev Eric Theman, who questioned
non-inclusion of his party logo for the governorship election by INEC.
The Adamawa governorship election
had been declared inconclusive by INEC on Monday morning after it collated
results from the 21 LGAs of the state and arrived at a margin of lead between
the two leading parties to be lower than the number of registered voters in
polling units where voting was cancelled.
The commission announced Tuesday
that it would conduct a supplementary election on March 23 in the affected
polling units, but a sign that the current suit might come up emerged the day
after the election, March 10, when the MRDD candidate cried out that his party
logo was not on the ballot paper, and urged INEC to cancel the election.
“I reject the election and urge
INEC to stop the process of announcing the results immediately. My party is not
on the ballot paper and I will reject whatever is the outcome,” Theman had
said.
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