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 INEC Wants New Senate President Removed: Challenges Court Order on Wabara
In what looks like a dramatic twist of
events, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday rushed to the Federal High Court, Abuja,
to seek a discharge of a court injunction compelling it to return Senator Adolphus Wabara as the winner of the
senatorial election in Abia. Justice Wilson Egbo-Egbo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had on Monday made an
ex-parte order on the electoral body to present a certificate of return to Adolphus Wabara as the duly elected
Senator, based on the controversial April 12, 2003 elections. Egbo-Egbo made the order at the instance of Adolphus
Wabara through his lawyers, Anthony Idigbe (SAN) and Dr. Bolarin Wale Babalakin (SAN), via ex-parte application,
in pursuance to order 9, Rules 1 and 8 and order 34, Rule 1 of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules. Piqued
by the court's order, the electoral commission through its lawyer, Mr. Joe Kyari Gadzama (SAN), yesterday filed
a motion on notice in pursuant to order 9, rule 11 and order 54 rule 1 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure)
Rules 2000 and under the court's inherent jurisdiction. The parties in the present application are Chief Adolphus
Wabara as respondent and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Resident Electoral Commissioner, Abia
State and Returning Officer, Abia-South Senatorial District, as applicants. INEC, through Gadzama, is seeking
the following reliefs:... (Guardian)
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32 MASSOB Members Arraigned in...
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Igbinedion, Others Mourn Ransome-Kuti
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 Thirty-two members of MASSOB were, yesterday, arraigned
before an Asaba Chief Magistrate’s Court on a three-count charge of alleged unlawful assembly and wearing of army
camouflage uniform, but were, however, granted bail. While another batch of eight including their leader, Chief
Ralph Uwazurike, who were brought down, yesterday, from Abuja to Asaba was transferred to Owerri. (Vanguard)
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 Benin, Edo State capital wore a mournful
mood yesterday following news of the death of former Minister of Health, Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti in a London
hospital. Among those who reacted...to the shocking news were Gov Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State, who described
the death of the professor of Paediatrics as "a rude shock" and "an irreparable loss that would
leave a long scar on the country's health sector. (This Day)
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