A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday issued a fresh order to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest the immediate past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for contempt of court.
The case was instituted by the Action Alliance (AA), which challenged INEC and Yakubu over the commission’s non-compliance with a judgment delivered by Justice Funmilola Demi-Ajayi in suit number FHC/OS/CS/194/2024.
The original judgment had ordered INEC to upload the names of the National Chairman of AA, Adekunle Omoaje, and other members of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) onto the INEC portal.
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The court had previously upheld that the AA’s elective convention on October 7, 2023, which resulted in Omoaje and other NEC members being elected, was “authentic, as it was properly monitored and supervised by officials of INEC in accordance with the party’s constitution and the Electoral Act.”
Although INEC claimed to have complied with the judgment, the AA disagreed, stating that Omoaje’s name had yet to be uploaded on the commission’s website.
The new court order, signed by Mr O.M. Kilani, on behalf of the Court Registrar, reads:
“It is hereby ordered that the IGP shall cause the arrest and shall charge the defendant/judgment debtors for contempt and committal proceedings within seven days of this ruling.”
The court also awarded a cost of N100,000 against the judgment creditors.
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