A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday denied a spur of the moment endeavor to control the Independent National Electoral Commission from utilizing card peruser machines for the behavior of the general decisions.
Equity Adeniyi Ademola, in a short governing, dismisses an ex parte application by the Peoples Democratic Party's contender for the Ogun-East senatorial region race, Mr. Waliu Taiwo, looking for an request of break order limiting INEC from utilizing the machine for the decisions.
Equity Ademola, in dismissing the application, held that it was more fitting to hear the principle suit recorded on March 11, 2015 when the INEC would be spoken to in court.
He requested that listening to notification be served on the INEC and the Attorney-General of the Federation, who are the two respondents in the suit.
He then altered hearing for April 24.
Taiwo's advice, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, had encouraged the court to allow his customer's request to God, which he depicted as "exceptional yet the fitting thing to do."
In the mean time, the All Progressives Congress hopeful likewise for the Ogun-East senatorial area decision, Mr. Gbolahan Dada, on Friday showed his enthusiasm to join the suit as a litigant.
The principle suit was recorded before Justice Ibrahim Buba in the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court. Yet the Chief Judge, Justice Ibrahim Auta, had exchanged the case to the Abuja Division where comparative matters were pending.
All the three comparative matters pending before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court have either been deferred inconclusively to anticipate the result of different interlocutory advances or being stopped by a request of stay of transactions.
But Oluyede told the court on Friday that his customer's case was not difficult the utilization of the card peruser in light of the fact that it was a type of electronic voting restricted by law.
He clarified that INEC having without anyone else's input conceded that the utilization of the machine could be full of hiccups, "we are testing the lawfulness of forcing an alternate hindrance on the methods for a voter separated from having his name on the register and distinguishing him as the individual whose name is on the register."
Equity Ademola, while guaranteeing that the topic of the suit would not be lessened by the behavior of the surveys, settled hearing in the matter til
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