Court Stops INEC From Recognising PDP's Chris Abah As Sole Candidate For Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Fed Constiuency Elections.

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission from further recognising Christian Abah as the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the forthcoming House of Representatives election in Ado, Okpokwu and Ogbadibo Federal Constituency of Benue State.


INEC had earlier said Abah would be declared elected as he was the sole candidate across all political parties in the forthcoming poll.
Justice Adeniyi Ademola made the court’s interim restraining order in a suit filed by the incumbent representative of the constituency, Mr. Hassan Anthony Saleh, who is urging the court to disqualify Abah for allegedly presenting forged certificate to INEC.

The judge also granted an interim order restraining the PDP from further recognising or giving effect to Abah as its candidate.
He also barred Abah from further parading himself as the party’s candidate.

The interim orders were to last till when the case is decided.
The court therefore granted an accelerated hearing of the case and adjourned the matter till February 10 for further hearing.

In a decision extract issued and signed by the Director (Commission’s Secretariat), Mr. Ishiaku Gali, INEC also approved that Abah be declared elected on the day of the election by the Returning Officer.
INEC hinged its decision on the provision of Section 41 (1) of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

In his suit numbered FHC/ABJ/989/14 filed, the plaintiff also alleged Abah of perjury for allegedly lying on oath when he claimed in his INEC Form CF 001 that he never presented forged certificate to the commission.

In a supporting affidavit, the plaintiff claimed that Abah had in 2011, in his INEC Form CF 001, claimed to have attended the Federal Polytechnic Mubi from 1982-1983 where he obtained a National Diploma in Accountancy.

The plaintiff however said a letter from the institution showed otherwise.

The December 22, 2014 letter with reference number, FPM/ACD/S/III/620, was signed by the Registrar, Dr. Suleiman S. Buba.

Saleh stated in his affidavit, “Mr. Abah Christain Adabah had never enrolled for a National Diploma programme in Accountancy, in Federal Polytechnic, Mubi.

“Consequently, he was never issued with a national Diploma certificate in Accountancy.

“Thus, the National Diploma certificate (in Accountancy) he claimed to have acquired from the federal Polytechnic, Mubi is a purely forged one, and therefore not genuine. We therefore, distantly disassociated ourselves from it.”

He asked the court to determine “whether by the provision of section 66(1)(i) the 3rd defendant (Abah) has not disqualified himself having presented forged documents to INEC.”

“Whether by the combined provisions of paragraph 22 [g] of the Electoral guidelines of the PDP and section 31 [2][5] [6] of the constitution, the court will not disqualify the 3rd defendant for perjury.

“If the court answers the questions in favour of the plaintiff, then, it is urged to make an order declaring the plaintiff, who emerged second at the primaries as the dully nominated candidate of the PDP for the federal constituency.”
He therefore sought “an order disqualifying the 3rd defendant as the PDP candidate for the Ado/Apoku/Ogbadigbo Federal Constituency of Benue State.”

Source Punchonline
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