Sen. Godswill Akpabio, has obtained court order restraining INEC from issuing Certificate of Return to his opponent at the just concluded Senatorial Election in Akwa-Ibom State.


According to the Senator, until the anomaly in the collation of my result is corrected no Certificate of Return should be issued to the PDP candidate who was declared winner of the said election.

The said election has generated so many controversies.

https://www.zenzireporters.com/2019/03/sen-godswill-akpabio-obtains-court.html

very good move

Handsome move

I thought all grievances must go through the election tribunal.

Yes Jurisdiction is key here. The Federal High Court is aware that by the Provisions of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended it cannot proceed with an Election Matter which result have since been announced by INEC it lack the necessary Vires to so do and therefore has no Jurisdiction to entertain that matter.

The jurisdiction lies in an Election Petition Tribunal properly constituted that purpose. That injunction shall, as a matter of hard law, be discharged.

Can a court of Law make an order of this nature exparte? However when did the court start making restraining orders on INEC from issuing certificates of return in an election that have been concluded and announced? The electoral Act forbids it. Such matters are the exclusive preserve of an Election Petition Tribunal. It is not a Pre Election matter. It is a post election matter.

The gods are after akpabio, very soon he will run mad,

That judge that issued that order should be sent to 100yrs imprisonment with hard labour.

Akpabio the political retiries.

May he never succeed in Jesus name

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