Monday, 9 December 2013

Court rules on motion against Anambra council poll Dec.12

AN Awka Federal High Court presided over by Justice M.L. Abubakar has reserved ruling to December 12, 2013 in an application for interlocutory injunction brought before it by the embattled chairman of the Anambra State Independent Commission (ANSIEC), Prof. Titus Eze, against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the ANSIEC.
  The injunction is seeking to stop the state government from going ahead to conduct council election on December 21, 2013, as already fixed.
  At the resumed hearings in the matter yesterday, Eze, through his lead counsel, Chief Nnamdi Ibegbu (SAN), applied for an injunction to stop the scheduled election pending the determination of the substantive suit. The main suit, according to Ibegbu, bothers on the position of the chairman.
  He disclosed that based on the laws governing the local council elections and the ANSIEC, there would indeed be no council election in the state without the Chief Electoral Officer who is the chairman in place.

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