A Federal High court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop the February
2015 general elections.
The plaintiffs in the suit, Asogo Torkuma Venatius, Ola Solomon Oluwasanmi, Sunday Attah and Philip Agbese, in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/DW/2015 are asking the court to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the elections until all eligible voters have collected their Permanent Voters Card.
In the suit, filed through their counsel, Mr. Amobi Nzelu, they are
also asking the court to order the use of Temporary Voters Card for those who are unable to collect their PVC.
In the suit, they begged the court to order the postponement of the general election pending the provision of the PVC to them since
INEC is under statutory obligation to provide same to the plaintiffs.
In the statement of claim, the plaintiffs said that contrary to the announcement by the electoral umpire in 2014 that they would issue
all eligible voters with PVC for the February 2015 election, about half of eligible voters were yet to collect their PVC.
They further argued that few days to the elections, INEC was yet to produce and distribute voters card to them and other eligible voters.
They said, “Till date, over 40 percent of eligible voters who were registered by the 1st Defendant (INEC) for the up coming general
elections were yet to receive their Permanent Voter’s Card.
“There have been several protests all over the country against the decision of the 1st Defendant to go on with the conduct of the general
elections without distributing the PVC to millions of registered voters all over the country.”
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