Nigeria’s electoral umpire. the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it will be appealing the Federal High Court ruling, compelling it to allow two Plaintiffs to vote with their Temporary Voter’s Card (TVC) in subsequent polls.
The commission while acknowledging the receipt of the court order, revealed that it will take all necessary steps to quash the rulings.
INEC, in a very short message from Rotimi Lawrence Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary to the commission’s chairman, vows never to allow the court order to see the light of the day.
‘INEC has been served a copy of the judgement delivered on Thursday by the Federal High Court, Abuja Division which ordered it to allow two Plaintiffs to vote with their Temporary Voter’s Card (TVC).
‘The commission is taking immediate steps to appeal against the judgement of the trial court,‘ the commission noted in the short message.
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Africa Today News, New York reports that Justice Obiora Egwuatu of a Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) to allow eligible voters with the Temporary Voter Cards (TVC) participate in the March 18 governorship and state houses of assembly elections.
But INEC last night vowed to appeal against court order. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmim, said the commission was taking necessary steps to vacate the order. Oyekanmi confirmed that INEC had been served with the court order.
Oyekanmi added: ‘INEC has been served a copy of the judgement delivered today by the Federal High Court, Abuja Division which ordered it to allow two Plaintiffs to vote with their Temporary Voter’s Card (TVC). The Commission is taking immediate steps to appeal against the judgement of the trial court.’
This was just as the Commission yesterday, said the insinuations that the redeployment of its former Director of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Chidi Nwafor, was partly responsible for the technical glitches experienced during the presidential and National Assembly polls held on February 25, was nothing but an attempt to mislead the public.