JUST IN: Court Nullifies Ebonyi LGA Election [See Why]

Court has nullified the Ebonyi State LGA Election.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a Federal High Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Thursday, nullified the local government elections recently conducted in the state.

The election was reportedly conducted on 30 July by the Ebonyi State Independent Electoral Commission (EBSIEC).

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Jossy Eze, the EBSIEC chairperson, had declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress as winners of all the chairmanship and councillorship seats in the elections.

The Presiding Judge Fatun Riman in a suit No. FHC/AI/CS/151/2022 ruled that the conduct of the Ebonyi local government election was undemocratic and unlawful and therefore declared it null and void.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenged the outcome of the exercise, accusing the electoral commission and the Ebonyi State Government of failing to comply with Section 150 of the Electoral Act 2022, among other infractions.

Speaking to journalists in Abakaliki, the counsel to the plaintiff, Barr. Mudi Erhenedi commended the Federal High court for upholding justice in Ebonyi state.

According to him: “It is undemocratic and unlawful to conduct an election into the local government areas or council without availing the plaintiffs with the exact law that is meant to regulate the exercise.

“There are a lot of other issues with not compliance with the electorial act 2022. The electoral act 2022 said the procedures for conducting elections into the local government areas by state commissioners must comply with that procedure for conducting into area councils in the FCT.

“If you look at it, how do you access compliance without law if you hide the law with which you want to conduct the election is it not when you make the law public that we will know wether you complied with it or not, how can you be making laws and hiding them.

“My position now is that my clients demanded to be availed of this law, we came under the freedom of information act it intending the procedure to conduct elections, we wrote to EBSIEC, we wrote the House of Assembly,we wrote to INEC whose responsibilities all of these bodies refused to provide us the law” he stated.

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However, all efforts to react the government lawyer, Barr. Roy Nweze to respond to the ruling of the court, at the time of filing this report failed, as he was not picking calls.

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