{"id":11944,"date":"2018-09-17T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11944"},"modified":"2018-09-17T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:38:58","slug":"oaun-election-threatened-nrm-heads-to-court-as-inec-excludes-candidates-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11944","title":{"rendered":"Oaun Election threatened: NRM heads to court as INEC excludes candidate\u2019s name\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About five days to the Osun State governorship election, the National Rescue Movement (NRM) on Monday gave the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 24 hours within which it should include the name of its candidate, Jumoke Lawoyin, whose name has been omitted from the list approved by the commission.<\/div>\n
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\nShould INEC fail to effect the anomaly within the stipulated time, the party threatened that it would seek redress in Court to ventilate its grievances.
\nThe position of NRM was contained in in a protest letter to the chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, with ref. No. KACCL\/LET\/RO\/381\/18, and signed by its lawyer, Kayode Ajulo, obtained by journalists in Jos.
\nThe letter entitled: \u201cUnlawful exclusion of Mrs. Jumoke Lawoyin, Governorship candidate of NRM from the approved list of Governorship candidates in the Osun State gubernatorial election\u201d, said, \u201cit is trite law that every duly registered political party and candidate enjoys the constitutional right to vote and be voted for.\u201d
\nThe petition reads fully below…
\nINTRODUCTION<\/strong>
\nWe are Solicitors to National Rescue Movement (NRM) hereinafter referred to as \u2018our Client\u2019.
\nOur Client is a recognized and duly registered political party under the relevant laws in Nigeria with a mandate to attain political power through democratic and constitutional means for the purpose of creating socio-economic well-being of the citizens.
\nFACTUAL MATRIX<\/strong>
\nOur Client briefed us that by a notice dated 12th July, 2018, your office was informed of the conduct of our Client\u2019s primaries, sequel to which your representatives led by Mr. Asaolu Adeniyi Ishola were sent to observe and monitor the said primary election which held at Brymor Hotel, Agunbelewo, Oshogbo and in which Mrs Jumoke Lawoyin was confirmed and affirmed as our Client\u2019s candidate for the Osun State gubernatorial election scheduled to hold on the 22nd of September 2018.
\nHowever, it is our brief that despite the service of the requisite notice of the primaries on your commission as required by law and your subsequent participation wherein your staff observed the emergence of our Client\u2019s candidate for the impending Osun State gubernatorial election, your Commission has negligently, unlawfully, illegally omitted, left out and excluded the name of our Client\u2019s candidate from the INEC approved list.
\nOur Client further informed us that they have exhausted all available mechanisms of communication with your Commission in other to rectify the anomaly which as explained to them was due to some administrative oversight which unfortunately has been left unattended, hence, the briefing our Firm to formally take up their complaint with your Commission.
\nOUR CLIENT\u2019S DEMANDS<\/strong>
\nTAKE NOTICE that your Commission\u2019s act of omitting, refusing and or neglecting to add our Client\u2019s candidate\u2019s name to your approved candidates list for the 2018 Osun State gubernatorial election is unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional and ought to be urgently rectified.
\nFURTHER TAKE NOTICE that considering the peculiarity of this case and the urgency attached thereof, our Client requires that you should within 24-Hours of receipt of this letter, cause an amendment to be effected to the approved Osun State gubernatorial candidates list to include our Client\u2019s candidate, otherwise, we may be constrained to perfect the brief of our client by employing all available legal mechanism at our disposal to ensure that our client is not dispossessed of their right to participate in the Osun State gubernatorial Election by this colossal omission.
\nIt is trite law that every duly registered political party and candidate enjoys the Constitutional right to vote and be voted for, we therefore implore you to within the specified period, accede to our Client\u2019s demands.
\nAs we await your prompt response to this letter, please accept the assurances of our highest professional regards.
\nYours faithfully,
\nFor: Kayode Ajulo & Co. Castle of Law.
\nENDS***
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***gives 24 hours ultimatum About five days to the Osun State governorship election, the National Rescue Movement (NRM) on Monday gave the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 24 hours within which it should include the name of its candidate, Jumoke Lawoyin, whose name has been omitted from the list approved by the commission. Should INEC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}