The Motion Alliance, AA, has warned the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, towards selectively complying with court docket judgments and misinterpreting legitimate court docket orders in regards to the occasion’s management.
In a press release signed by the occasion’s Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Olu Omotoso, the AA expressed disappointment over INEC’s response to a latest judgment from the Federal Excessive Court docket in Osogbo.
The Federal Excessive Court docket in Osogbo ordered the Inspector-Normal of Police to arrest INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, inside seven days for contempt of court docket.
This order was issued after the Fee didn’t adjust to earlier directives requiring it to replace its official data to mirror Dr Adekunle Rufai Omoaje because the Nationwide Chairman of the Motion Alliance.
Whereas INEC has partially complied by importing the names of different members of the Nationwide Govt Committee elected on the occasion’s Nationwide Conference held on the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State, it notably omitted Omoaje’s title as Nationwide Chairman.
The Motion Alliance labeled this as “partial compliance” and “a direct affront to the rule of regulation.”
The Motion Alliance defined that Dr Adekunle Rufai Omoaje’s management was established via a authentic Nationwide Conference, monitored by INEC, held in Osogbo in February 2020.
The occasion additionally reminded INEC that the Supreme Court docket of Nigeria had dismissed an attraction by Kenneth Udeze, affirming his expulsion from the occasion.
The Motion Alliance urged INEC to chorus from additional distortion of information and to totally adjust to the present orders issued by the Federal Excessive Court docket in Osogbo.
The occasion additionally referred to as for an impartial roundtable dialogue involving human rights organizations, election monitoring teams, and worldwide observers to evaluate INEC’s compliance with court docket judgments and its conduct in relation to the administration of political events.
The occasion acknowledged, “The rule of regulation should not be compromised by administrative bias or selective interpretation of court docket orders. INEC should rise above private affect and partisan manipulation to safeguard Nigeria’s democracy.”
