PDP guber
candidate decries bad roads in Anambra
The Court of
Appeal, Enugu division, has ordered a personal service on the chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu , in a
suit asking it to commit him (Yakubu) to prison over alleged refusal to conduct
t
he Anambra Central rerun senatorial election, as directed by the court in
2015.
A personal
service is the actual delivery of process to the individual to whom it is
directed or to someone authorised to receive it on his or her behalf.
The court
presided over by Justice J Ogunwumiju gave the directive in the suit brought
before it by Mr. Chris Nkem Ekweozor, a lawyer and senatorial candidate of Mega
Progressives People Party (MPPP) in the 2015 Anambra Central senatorial
election, against INEC and its chairman.
At the
hearing yesterday, the court also ordered publication of the proof of service
in a national daily, while adjourning the matter to January 25, 2018 for
further hearing.
Ekweozor
said that he had written and served several notices of the committal forms 48
and 49 but had not received any response, adding that the commission had denied
his people representation at the Senate.
But counsels
for INEC, Alhassan Umar and Amaka Agbo Anike, argued that the commission had
earlier fixed March 2016 for the rerun but was halted by the appeal of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) pending at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
They said
that the appeal was on why the party should be disqualified from the election,
adding that the matter was on October 18, 2017 heard and adjourned for ruling.
They added that delay in conduct of the rerun was to clear legal hitches.
Meanwhile,
the PDP candidate in the November 18 Anambra governorship election, Mr. Oseloka
H. Obaze, has decried the bad condition of roads in the state.
Obaze, who
spoke in Onitsha yesterday during flag-off of a rally by the Road Transport
Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), said Anambra road users deserve
better.
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