The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2015 Kwara Central Senatorial District election, Abdurahman Abdulrazaq, to bring an application seeking leave of court to compel the prosecution of an agent of Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki for alleged forgery of the election results.
\nJustice Binta Nyako Tuesday gave the directive after counsel to the PDP candidate, Murtala Sambo, informed the court that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has failed to respond to the originating summons despite being served with the processes.
\nAbdulrazaq is seeking an order of mandamus compelling INEC to prosecute Ladi Hassan, an agent to Saraki during the collation of the results of the 2015 election; and the collating\/returning officer, Mrs. Mulkah Ahmed.
\nAbdulrazaq accused the INEC officials of manipulating INEC Forms EC 8D (1): forms for summary of results from electoral divisional areas collation at Senatorial District Level; and INEC Form EC 8E (1): Declaration of Result of Election.
\nThe affected officers are: Mrs Mohammed Adenike (Returning Officer for Adigbongbo\/Awe\/Orimaro); Mrs Balogun Mutiat (Returning Officer for Afon); Ibrahim Tajudeen Olanrewaju (Returning Officer for Balogun Gambari); and Olowoleru Olodan (Returning Officer for Ogidi).
\nOthers are: Abdulrahman Mohammed Rahim (Returning Officer for Warrah\/Egbeejila\/Oshin); Alhaji Ladi Hassan (Agent to Bukola Saraki); and Dr Mulikah Ahmed, the Returning Officer for the entire Kwara Central Senatorial District.
\nThe plaintiff alleged in his suit marked FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/92\/2018, that Saraki was declared the winner of the election on March 28, 2015, when the results were only allegedly collated by just Ahmed and Hassan (Saraki\u2019s agent) at the district level on March 29, 2015.
\nHe attached to his suit two sets of documents, with one set marked Exhibit 1, said to be showing that \u201cthe summaries of results from wards and local government areas that make up the senatorial district were finally compiled on March 29, 2015, as the date on each of these forms read the same collation date.\u201d
\nAn affidavit deposed to by the plaintiff\u2019s aide, Adebayo Oloyin, stated in part, \u201cThat it is a common sense that collation date will always precede declaration date as the collation dictates declaration of results.\u201d
\nThe deponent explained that the \u201coffence committed\u201d by the persons named cost his boss the merit of his petition at the Election Petition Tribunal challenging Saraki\u2019s election.
\n\u201cIt is a common sense that collation date will always precede declaration date as the collation dictates declaration of result,\u201d he averred.
\nHe told the court that his petitions to INEC and the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to prosecute the persons involved in the alleged offences have not received speedy action.
\nThe case has been adjourned to April 23 for hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 2015 Kwara Central Senatorial District election, Abdurahman Abdulrazaq, to bring an application seeking leave of court to compel the prosecution of an agent of Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki for alleged forgery of the election results. Justice Binta Nyako […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113","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=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}