The Federal High Court, Lokoja, has granted an interim
injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
from receiving petitions for the purpose of initiating a recall process against
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
The push to recall the suspended
senator intensified on Thursday, with more groups in Kogi Central throwing
their weight behind the process.
However, a group of Ebira indigenes refuted the claim that
the recall process was being sponsored and influenced with money by
Akpoti-Uduaghan’s political opponents.
Nevertheless, the court, which gave the order on Thursday,
also restricted INEC staff, agents, privies, or assigns from accepting or
acting on any petition containing fictitious signatures of purported members of
the Kogi Central Senatorial District and from conducting any referendum pending
the determination of the motion on notice to the same effect.
The court, according to the order paper made available to
newsmen on Friday morning, granted the application following an ex-parte
application for an interim injunction supported by an affidavit of extreme
urgency.
The court processes were sworn to by Anebe Jacob Ogirima for
himself and four others who are registered voters and constituents of the Kogi
Central Senatorial District of Kogi State.
However, the application was moved by Smart Nwachimere,
Esq., of West-Idahosa, SAN & Co., but the case has been adjourned to May 6,
2025, for a report of service and further mention.
Reacting to the development, a pressure group, Action
Collective, commended the judiciary for granting the order.
The group’s coordinator, Dr. Onimisi Ibrahim, said in his
reaction that the order would further expose the impunity of some sponsored
individuals behind the failed plot to recall Senator Natasha.
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