ADC Crisis: INEC Awaits Certified Copy To Decide Next Steps.
The commission said its legal department would examine the judgment and advise it on the […] The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it is awaiting a certified true copy of the Federal High Court judgment on the leadership crisis in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) before deciding its next line of action.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, disclosed this on Wednesday during a webinar organised by the PUNCH Media Foundation.
Haruna explained that the commission could not act on the judgment without first obtaining and reviewing its certified true copy.
He said INEC had already taken steps to obtain the document but would have to follow the court’s administrative procedures. “We can’t rush the courts, but we do our own part. As soon as judgments like this come, what they do, of course, is to go to the courts, to go to the court register, to see if they can obtain it. But they have their own processes,” he said.
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