A High Court sitting in Yola, Adamwa State, has barred the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] from conducting supplementary governorship election in the state.
Justice Abdulaziz Waziri, granted an interim injunction barring INEC from conducting the supplementary polls scheduled for March 23, 2019.
The polls were slated to hold in the 44 polling units where voting either did not hold during the March 9 governorship election or was cancelled.
The suit was filed by the governorship candidate of the Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy (MRRD), Rev Eric Theman.
Rev. Theman had questioned the non-inclusion of his party logo for the governorship election by INEC.
“I reject the election and urge INEC to stop the process of announcing the results immediately. My party is not on the ballot paper and I will reject whatever is the outcome,” Theman had said.
The election was declared inconclusive by INEC on Monday morning after it collated results from the 21 LGAs of the state and arrived at a margin of lead between the two leading parties to be lower than the number of registered voters in polling units where voting was cancelled.
