Ahead of the forthcoming elections, a Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to accept the nomination of candidates of the Labour Party in 24 states either manually or through its electronic nomination portal.
Delivering judgment in the suits brought before him by the party, Justice Inyang Ekwo held that INEC violated sections 31, 33 and 36 of the Electoral Act 2022 by rejecting the Labour Party’s candidates.
However, rather than upload the fresh candidates’ names, INEC claimed that its nomination portal was faulty and declined to accept the candidates list manually.The 24 affected states are: Kwara, Plateau, Nasarawa, Lagos, Bayelsa, Oyo, Benue, Bauchi, Akwa Ibom and Ekiti. The court held that the evidence of the Labour Party exchanging letters with INEC was credible and proceeded to attach probative value to it and that the Labour Party should not be made to bear the effect of a non-functional electronic nomination portal.
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