ADP Drags INEC to Court Over Osun Constituency

The Action Democratic Party and its candidate for Orolu State Constituency in Osun State in the 2023 general elections, Sadiq Ismail, have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission to court over non-recognition of the constituency.

The plaintiffs through their counsel, Ademola Oyedokun, had dragged INEC before an Abuja Federal High Court in a suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1901/2022, asking it to compel INEC to recognise Ismail as the ADP candidate for Orolu State Constituency in the elections and return him elected being the only candidate contesting the seat.

In the copies of the originating summons obtained by our correspondent in Osogbo, the plaintiffs explained that Ismail had obtained form to contest the seat of the Orolu State Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly, but was wrongly listed as ADP candidate contesting election into Boripe/Boluwaduro State Constituency by INEC.

The plaintiffs then sought the mandatory order of the court, “directing the defendant to remove the candidacy of the 2nd claimant from Boripe /Boluwaduro State Constituency of Osun State to Orolu State Constituency of Osun State indicated in the 2nd claimant’s Form EC13E and Form EC9 uploaded and submitted to the defendant’s online electronic platform by the claimant for the purpose of Osun State House of Assembly election into Orolu State Constituency of Osun State House of Assembly fixed for 11th March 2023.”

They also asked the court for a “MANDATORY ORDER directing the defendant to apply the provisions of Section 39(1) & (2) of the Electoral Act 2022 to the Orolu State Constituency of Osun