Tribunal Warns Igini To Produce Election Material Or Risk Jail Term

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By UbongAbasi Ise

The Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, has come under fire at the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, as three-man panel yesterday slammed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  for its the inability to produce election materials used in conducting the 2019 general elections in Abak/Etim Ekpo/Ika Federal Constituency.
The tribunal, at the resumed sitting over the petition filed by Mr. Emmanuel Ekon and the All Progressives Congress against Aniekan Umanah, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and INEC, granted an application filed by S.C. Peters (Counsel to Petitioners), to extend the pre-hearing session.
Following the failure of INEC to produce election document, the Tribunal asked Counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dan Gospel (Esq), to read out Section 77 of the electoral act (as amended) which stipulates that: (1) The Resident Electoral Commissioner, in a State where an election is conducted, shall, within 7 days after an application is made to him by any of the parties to an election petition, cause such documents or the certified true copy thereof, to be issued to the said party, and (2) Any Resident Electoral Commissioner who willfully fails to comply with subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a maximum fine of N2,000,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both, which he read in the affirmative.
INEC’s counsel, then informed the tribunal that they were unable to produce copies of election documents but claimed they were almost done.
Chairman of the Tribunal then directed INEC's counsel to immediately produce, provide and release all documents related to the conduct of the said election before the tribunal sits again.

©The Sensor Newspaper


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