Court docket Adjourns Go well with Demanding Tinubu’s Governorship Particulars With INEC

The Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Abuja has mounted a brand new date for the listening to of an software asking the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) to launch the particulars of Bola Tinubu throughout the 1999 and 2003 Governorship elections.

Naija Information reviews that the courtroom mounted October 12 to listen to the case after INEC introduced no authorized illustration on the resumed date of sitting on Wednesday.

Mike Enahoro-Ebah Esq, in an software, sued INEC earlier than Justice Donatus Okorowo, praying the courtroom for the “nomination types for governor and affidavits in assist of private particulars and all different paperwork connected thereto, submitted to the respondent by and on behalf of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the 1999 and 2003 Governorship Elections in Lagos State.”

He contended that his request is in step with the Freedom of Data Act.

The lawyer is seemingly attempting to find out the coherence of Tinubu’s particulars as governor and presidential candidate.

In response to him, “The appropriate of entry to public paperwork in custody and possession of the respondent is inclusive of the best to institute civil proceedings in courtroom to compel the respondent to situation similar paperwork to anybody who applies for similar, as established in Part 29 (4) of the Electoral Act, 2022, and Part 1 (3), Part 2 (6) and Part 7 (4) of the Freedom of Data Act, 2011.”

Subsequently, the decide adjourned the matter and directed that INEC be served with a listening to discover.