ADC drags INEC to court over removal of leaders from party records

The African Democratic Congress (ADC), led by Senator David Mark, has approached the Federal High Court successful Abuja to situation the determination of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to region its apical officials from authoritative records.

The lawsuit followed INEC’s deletion of the names of David Mark arsenic National Chairman and Rauf Aregbesola arsenic National Secretary from its portal connected April 1.

In a question filed connected April 7, Mark, done his lawyer, Sulaiman Usman (SAN), asked the tribunal to bid INEC to reconstruct the names of the party’s National Working Committee members arsenic they were earlier the dispute.

Part of the petition reads, “An bid of mandatory injunction, mounting speech the decision, act, oregon directive of the responsive removing the names of the applicant’s National Working Committee from its authoritative portal.”

The radical besides asked the tribunal to compel INEC to recognise and support the names of Mark and Aregbesola, on with different members of the National Executive Committee.

In addition, they privation the tribunal to restrain INEC from interfering with the party’s enactment records oregon recognising any...