The Labour Party (LP) has threatened to drag the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court if the commission? decides to conduct elections in spite of the Supreme Court judgment which ordered that fresh elections must be conducted within 90 days from the date of judgment.
The party also noted that INEC must issue fresh election timetable for the conduct of the governorship elections in the five states affected.
The National Chairmanof the LP, Mr.? Dan Nwanyawu, who stated this yesterday, said that INEC did not have the powers to disregard the ruling of the Supreme Court which categorically ordered the electoral body? to maintain status quo over all elections.
He said, “The Supreme Court judgment last Friday is explicit on the mode of the election, INEC should not be acting as if it is now partisan, elections are not something you just announce and railroad people into it.
Meanwhile, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has said that INEC is a biased electoral umpire and is being discriminatory in implementing the recent Supreme Court judgment that sacked five governors from office.
In a statement signed by CPC’s National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, the party said that INEC is acting as “an appendage of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).”
The CPC statement reads in part said, “With characteristic show of executive rascality and despicable indiscretion, the PDP-led government in Kogi state caused Captain Idris Wada, the PDP candidate elected in the governorship election of December 3, 2011, to be sworn in as governor.”
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