APART from the threat to the Anambra governorship election by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, which had boasted that it would stop the poll unless there was a referendum on Biafra before then, there is another threat by an Onitsha -based human rights lawyer, Mr. Jezie Ekejiuba, who has a pending matter at the Supreme Court over the list of political parties that would participate in elections in the country, including the forthcoming Anambra election.
Ekejiuba had dragged INEC to court over deregistration of 35 political parties by the commission, which he described as unconstitutional. The matter dragged to the Court of Appeal in Enugu, which delivered judgment in his favour.
INEC took the matter to the Supreme Court in Suit No SC.671/2016 and the apex court is yet to deliver judgment on it.
The case before the apex court is whether all the political parties formed since the commencement of the current political dispensation in 1999, should be allowed to have their logos in ballot papers for every election in the country.
However, Ekejiuba told Vanguard in Onitsha that he would soon file an interlocutory injunction to stop INEC from conducting the Anambra governorship election, unless the Supreme Court delivers judgment on the matter.
“INEC took me to the Supreme Court and my argument, which succeeded at the Court of Appeal, is that the commission has no power to exclude any political party formed since 1999 from taking part in any election. Unless the apex court decides on the matter, there will be no election in Anambra State in November,” Ekejiuba said.
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