Court Bars APC From Submitting Delta Candidates’ List To INEC

A Federal High Court in Asaba, the Delta State capital, has
restrained the All Progressives Congress (APC) from submitting the
list of its candidates from the state to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 general elections.

The presiding judge, Justice Toyin Adegoke, ordered APC’s
National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, who was joined in the suit as
the 2nd respondent with APC as 1st respondent, INEC and Prophet
Jones Erue (the 3rd and 4th respondents, respectively) as well as
the plaintiff to maintain status quo and desist from submitting any
list of candidates from Delta State from the two factions of the
party to INEC till the substantive suit filed is heard.

The Cyril Ogodo-led faction of the party in Delta had approached
the court seeking an interlocutory injunction restraining APC,
Adams Oshiomhole from submitting the list of candidates from the
Jones Erue faction of the party to INEC.

Justice Adegoke said since pre-election matters require
accelerated hearings, “this matter shall be given an accelerated
hearing” as it is a pre-election matter.

“Parties shall maintain status quo as at today, the 17th day of
November 2018. That is the order of this court.” Adegoke ruled.