Court to hear motion that seeks to bar INEC from conducting Anambra guber poll

The Court of Appeal in Enugu, has said it would hear a motion for preservative injunction filed by Ifeanychukwu Okonkwo from Anambra State against the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Okonkwo, the candidate of Nigeria Advance Party in the 2003 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, is seeking to stop INEC from organizing the November’s governorship poll till it restores the party on its list.

Okonkwo in hs argument said by delisting the party, the Commission had challenged the jurisdiction of the court in a case pending before it in which NAP was a party at the time of the delisting.

He said INEC should be stopped from further action of attempting to “bury the party”

Okonkwo also applied for leave to submit his written address and serve all the parties within five days.

The counsel for INEC, Dennis Mba, did not object the motion, but asked for five days to respond to the written address.

The judge, Justice Abdulkadir Jega, ordered the two parties to file their written addresses as applied and adjourned hearing to June 4 when the substantive appeal would also come up.

Also joined in the motion is Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State.

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