The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos will on Friday decide whether the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can engage the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, led by Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, a.k.a. MC Oluomo, to distribute election materials and personnel in Lagos during the forthcoming general elections.
Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke fixed the date on Wednesday, after hearing Abass Arisekola Ibrahim, counsel to the plaintiffs/applicants, who argued the suit’s originating motion.
The suit marked FHC/L/CS/271/2023 was filed by three political parties and their gubernatorial candidates in Lagos State seeking to stop an Akinsanya-led Lagos State Parks Management Committee collaboration with INEC.
The plaintiffs/applicants are the Labour Party (LP), its guber candidate Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), its guber candidate Funsho Doherty the Boot Party and its guber candidate Wale Olumo, while INEC is the defendant/respondent.
However, the judge on Monday granted the plaintiffs/applicants an interlocutory injunction restraining INEC from engaging an Akinsanya or any of the agents, or drivers of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee which he leads, from distributing INEC materials in Lagos State.