DAILY POST
An Abuja-based legal practitioner, Abdulazeez Tijani Ahmed, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before a Federal High Court in Abuja over its alleged refusal to put a former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on trial for electoral offences.
The lawyer wants the electoral body to prosecute the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the alleged offence of double nominations during the last primary elections of the APC.
In his suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2178/22, Ahmed is praying for an order of mandamus against INEC, compelling it to initiate an investigation and prosecution of Oshiomhole for willfully violating Section 115 of the Electoral Act 2022.
The legal practitioner sought an order from the court to compel the electoral body to invoke Section 145 of the electoral act in putting the Edo senator-elect on criminal trial.
Ahmed claimed that under Section 145 of the electoral act, INEC had a mandatory legal duty to initiate criminal prosecution of anybody who willfully breached Section 115 of the act, as alleged against the former Edo State governor.
In a three-paragraph affidavit in support of the motion on notice brought pursuant to Order 34 Rule 1 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure, Oshiomhole was alleged to have run afoul of the law…
