The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from ending voter registration on 30 June 2022. Honourable Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of Court 10 on Monday granted an order of interim injunction following the hearing of an argument on motion exparte by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project . SERAP and…The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from ending voter registration on 30 June 2022.
In the suit, SERAP had asked the court for “an order restraining INEC, its agents, privies, assigns, or any other person claiming through it from discontinuing the continuous voters’ registration exercise from the 30th June 2022 or any other date pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
In the suit number FHC/L/CS/1034/2022 filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos, and transferred to Abuja, SERAP is asking the court to determine “whether the failure of INEC to extend the deadline for voter registration is not a violation of Nigerian Constitution, 1999 [as amended], the Electoral Act, and international standards.”
The suit, read in part: “Enforcing unrealistic voter registration deadline while extending the deadline for party primaries would deny and abridge the constitutional and international human rights of eligible voters.” “INEC must not only be independent and impartial in the exercise of its constitutional and statutory responsibilities, but must also be seen to be independent and impartial.
INEC office here in new bussa Niger state has been shot down for some week now, we were told the equipment for voters registration was taking to another local government, a lot of people are here to register but no way please do something.
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