The Motion Alliance, AA, has formally challenged the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, to reevaluate its compliance with a judgment issued by the Federal Excessive Court docket in Osogbo, Osun State.
The courtroom had mandated INEC to acknowledge all members of the celebration’s Nationwide Government Committee, NEC, who had been elected through the celebration’s nationwide conference held in Abeokuta, Ogun State, in 2023.
Following a gathering of the celebration’s Nationwide Assume Tank Committee and the NEC, the celebration management asserted that INEC’s compliance with the courtroom’s judgment was partial.
The celebration famous that INEC failed to incorporate the title of the Nationwide Chairman, Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, on its portal, opposite to the courtroom ruling delivered by Justice Funmilola Demi-Ajayi.
In a communiqué issued on the conclusion of the assembly and signed by the Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olu Omotosho, the celebration expressed concern over INEC’s incomplete adherence to the courtroom’s judgment, emphasizing that the problem referenced by INEC in relation to a pending Supreme Court docket matter was unrelated, because the courtroom’s judgment was clear and unambiguous.
Omotosho maintained that Kenneth Udeze has not been a member of the celebration since 2019, as he was expelled from the celebration, together with his expulsion ratified by the Nationwide Assume Tank Committee, the celebration’s highest ruling physique.
He added that the Supreme Court docket affirmed Udeze’s expulsion.
He said, “Our celebration has been experiencing this stalemate since 2019, the yr Kenneth Udeze was suspended by his personal govt for critical infractions associated to misappropriation of celebration funds, high-handedness, and anti-party actions.
“A disciplinary committee was shaped to offer him with a good listening to, however he refused to attend any of the 4 hearings over six months. Afterward, the committee submitted its findings to the Nationwide Assume Tank Committee, which subsequently advisable Udeze’s expulsion to the conference. This advice was upheld through the conference held on February 14, 2020, the place the election that introduced within the present Nationwide Government, led by Hon. Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, befell.
“Since his expulsion, Kenneth Udeze has tried to reclaim his place by questionable means as a substitute of difficult his expulsion legally. To this point, he has misplaced over 30 authorized circumstances trying to claim himself because the Nationwide Chairman of Motion Alliance. In a number of courtroom rulings, he has even been known as a ‘meddlesome interloper.’
“If the Supreme Court docket has settled Udeze’s membership standing by affirming his expulsion, and INEC is conscious of this judgment, then what excuse may the fee presumably have for ready on an unrelated enchantment?
“It’s a matter of frequent sense that an individual who will not be a citizen of Nigeria can’t run for President; equally, an individual who will not be a member of a political celebration shouldn’t be acknowledged because the celebration’s Nationwide Chairman.”
