A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been told that the order of
fresh primary elections by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) for the five states which were yet to conduct
governorship elections, did not involve Kogi State.
This claim was contained in an affidavit in support of motion on
notice filed by a chieftain of the party in the state, Umar Lawal, who
was a state delegate to the state congress of the party held between
January 4th and 9th, 2011, which was organised for the election of
Peoples Democratic Party’s candidates for the national and state
legislative houses and the governorship primary election.
The six-paragraph affidavit was deposed to by Udo Unogu, in support
of Lawal’s suit challenging the fresh primary election conducted by the
ruling party in Kogi State last Thursday.
The court presided over by Justice Bilikisu Aliyu had already granted
leave to the applicant to bring his motion seeking to compel INEC to
retain in its records the name of Alhaji Jubrin Isa Echocho as the
candidate of the PDP for the forthcoming Kogi state governorship
election, having won the 9th January, 2011 primary election in the
state.
The motion could not be moved,on Monday, with a court staff revealing
that the case file had been returned to the Chief Judge of the Federal
High Court for reassignment to a new judge since the suit was a vacation
case.
It was further learnt that all the vacation cases had been returned
for the re-assignment since the new legal year had commenced.
Source
No comments:
Post a Comment