PLATEAU: BREAKING: PDP MOVES TO ANNUL 9TH OCTOBER 2021, LG ELECTIONS. DRAGS GOV. MUTFWANG, AND 2 OTHERS TO COURT

By: Amb. Valentine Adese (JP),

Plateau State chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has dragged Governor Caleb Mutfwang (Esq) to the Plateau State High Court, challenging the 2021 Local Government elections held on 9^th October 2021.

Other Defendants on the face of the filed processes are the Attorney-General of the State and the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC).

The suit filed by way of Originating Summons is brought pursuant to Order 5 Rule 4 of the Plateau State High Court (Civil Procedure Rules 2020 and Section 6(6), 1, 17 (2,a), 40 and 42 (1, a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).

The chapter wants the Court, if the questions for determination in the suit are in its favour, to:

1.      Declare that the disqualification and or rejection of the names of Candidates of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), submitted to the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC), for the 9^th October 2021 Local Government elections in Plateau State is unlawful, unconstitutional, discriminatory, null and void, and,

2.       An Order annulling the entire Local Government election conducted by the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) across the Local Government Areas in Plateau State on 9^th October 2021.

3. TO BE CONTINUED…