A Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja has granted an interim injunction stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from receiving, accepting, or acting on any petition allegedly containing “fictitious signatures and names.”
The petitions are alleged to be aimed at initiating a recall process against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
Justice Isa H. Dashen, during the ruling, ordered that INEC, its staff, agents, privies, or assigns must not receive, accept, or act “in any way whatsoever on any purported petitions submitted to the defendant by any person or persons whatsoever, containing fictitious signatures and containing fictitious signatures and names of purported members of Kogi State Central Senatorial District of Kogi State” and must not conduct “any referendum whatsoever upon such Petition for the purpose of initiating a re-call process of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as Senator representing the said Senatorial District in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” pending the determination of a Motion on Notice.
