Ekiti guber: INEC rejects DPC’s notice of primary, party seeks redress in court

• *Warns commission against derailing nation’s frail democracy

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the notice of primary for Ekiti State governorship election submitted by the Democratic People’s Congress (DPC) on 5th January 2022.

However, in a statement issued yesterday by the National Chairman of the party, Olusegun Peters, the party said it would seek redress in court as its purported deregistration by INEC on 6th February 2020, was nullified by the Court of Appeal in August 2020 and the judgment has not been vacated by any court of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria.

DPC insisted on participating in the Ekiti governorship election and warned INEC against derailing the nation’s frail democracy by its flagrant disobedience to court judgments.

The party said the court is a temple of justice where aggrieved people seek redress against injustices meted to them and vowed to resist impunity, rascality and recklessness by the commission.

It is imperative that the nation’s political space should be widened and not suffocated by INEC in a naked show of power in violation of citizens’ fundamental rights as provided for in the 1999 constitution as amended.