A Federal High Court presided over by Justice A. M. Liman has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from declaring the result for the suspended rerun election in Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Ruling in a suit brought by the Peoples Democratic Party against INEC, its Resident Electoral Commissioner for Rivers State and another, Liman also restrained the electoral body from announcing any result in the Local Government Area of the State which election was subsequently suspended by INEC.
He further restrained INEC from announcing any results or figures howsoever generated or compiled purporting to be result of the re-run election for any or all of Khana, Bonny, Gokana, Andoni, Eleme and Tai Local Government Areas of Rivers State or any part of the re-run election scheduled for March 19, 2016 which election was subsequently suspended or postponed.
Consequently, the ruling has been commended by the Peoples Democratic Party, stressing that despite certain cases of misgivings orchestrated by some anti-democratic elements posing as politicians against our judicial system by trying to corrupt some of our eminent and respected jurists, the Nigerian Judiciary still remains the best bet to safeguard the nation’s democracy.
The chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, stated this while reacting to the ruling of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.
Obuah said: “It’s for this reason that we thank God for the judiciary and still keep hope alive that our democracy must survive despite attempts to muzzle it. We also hope that INEC will conscientiously respect the Court order and act as an unbiased umpire it ought to be.”
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