A State High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, on Tuesday vacated its earlier order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the governorship supplementary election in the state.
The court presided by Justice Abdul’Aziz Waziri also ruled that it has the jurisdiction to hear the case filed before by a political party, Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy.
In his ruling Tuesday, the court fixed Wednesday, March 27, to hear the originating motion by MRDD asking the court to nullify the first Adamawa governorship election conducted on March 9.
Reacting to the judgement, Barrister Mustpha Ibrahim, Counsel to MRDD party said: “The main substances to our case, is the removal of the MRDD party logo from ballot papers, which constitutes the disqualification from the entire election.
“To clear the course for every party to argue freely, the judge directed that we should come tomorrow and argue our point and the judgement would be passed before Friday that is square enough.
“There is no point granting accelerated hearing and at the same time granting an order to retrain conduct of elections”.
TheLagostimes reports that the governorship election in Adamawa remains inconclusive weeks after INEC halted the process on the basis of insufficient margin of win between the two leading candidates of APC and PDP.
A proposed rerun was suspended following an order of the court. Similar supplementary polls held in five other affected states last Saturday. The states are Kano, Sokoto, Benue, Bauchi and Plateau.