The Motion Alliance (AA) has raised the alarm over what it described as an unlawful try by the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) to interchange its duly recognised state chairmen throughout the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in alleged defiance of subsisting appellate court docket judgements.
In a strongly worded assertion signed by the occasion’s Nationwide Secretary, Vernimbe A. James, and made out there to LEADERSHIP in Abuja, the AA condemned INEC’s reported plan to behave on a controversial Federal Excessive Court docket judgement delivered in Osogbo, Osun State.
The occasion accused the electoral umpire of bowing to political stress and undermining the rule of legislation.
“We vehemently disagree with INEC’s resolution to proceed with implementing the Osogbo judgment by changing our reputable state chairmen,” the assertion stated. “This motion is just not solely illegal but in addition instantly contradicts legitimate and subsisting judgments of the Court docket of Appeal which affirm Chief Barr. Kenneth Udeze because the genuine nationwide chairman of the Motion Alliance.”
The AA insisted that the appellate court docket rulings have been binding and superior to the Osogbo Excessive Court docket resolution. It faulted INEC for failing to acknowledge that each a movement for keep of execution and a movement to put aside the Osogbo ruling had already been filed and served on the Fee.
“The Fee can not fake to be unaware of those pending processes,” the assertion continued. “We view INEC’s recognition of people who aren’t members of our occasion as state chairmen as a grave affront on democratic norms and judicial authority.”
The occasion additional accused INEC of withholding vital info from the Osogbo court docket throughout the proceedings by failing to reveal the existence of earlier judgments that had resolved the interior management dispute in its favour.
Describing the Fee’s motion as “government rascality,” the AA stated it quantities to a reckless disregard for the judicial hierarchy.
Authorized counsel to the occasion’s state chairmen and FCT consultant, Chief Okay.E. Ngwoke, has reportedly filed mandatory motions difficult the Osogbo court docket ruling, warning INEC towards implementing it pending closing court docket willpower.
The occasion additionally disclosed that it had formally written to the INEC Chairman in a letter dated June 23, 2025, urging the Fee to droop any motion till the motions earlier than the court docket are heard.
AA confused that judicial selections from the Court docket of Appeal stay superior and binding on all events, together with INEC, till overturned by the next court docket. “We demand that the Fee instantly evaluations its resolution and refrains from additional implementing the Osogbo judgment,” the occasion stated.
The assertion concluded by urging INEC to respect the sanctity of the judicial course of and keep away from actions that would destabilize political events or undermine public confidence in democratic establishments.
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