ADC crisis: INEC deliberately sabotaging us, court order won’t stand – Umeh

The Senator representing Anambra Central, Victor Umeh, has accused the president of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Joash Amupitan of deliberately sabotaging the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Umeh spoke to journalists connected Thursday successful Awka aft a preparatory gathering for the party’s legislature successful the state.

He said it was astonishing that the president of an electoral body, who is not conscionable a lawyer, but a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a instrumentality professor, claimed not to cognize that interior enactment matters cannot beryllium adjudicated connected by courts.

Umeh said: “Well, the contention implicit the enactment (ADC) enactment is precise elemental and straightforward. We are talking astir the tribunal making an bid successful the enactment of African Democratic Congress, and radical are engaged discussing the bid made by the court, which INEC, headed by a prof of instrumentality and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, feigned ignorance that nary tribunal successful Nigeria has jurisdiction to entertain immoderate substance bordering connected interior affairs of a governmental enactment oregon enactment of a governmental party.

“The Supreme Co...