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*PPA Says Provisions of OYSIEC Guide Inconsistent With Constitution.
Progressive People’s Alliance PPA has dragged the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission to court seeking a perpetual injunction restraining it from conducting elections into the local government councils in the state on the basis of section 5(H) of the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission OYSIEC Guide for the conduct of local government election into the local government councils in the state.
The party through its legal practitioner, Akinlolu Oyebamiji, Esq, is seeking perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, agents, servants, officers or privies from giving effect to or implementing the provision of Section 5(H) of the commission for the conduct of the local government election into the local government councils in the state.
In the originating summons exclusively made available to World Street Journal, in Ibadan, the plaintiff is claiming among other refiefs, a declaration that the nomination , eligibility, qualification and disqualifications of candidates contesting the local councils elections in Oyo State are governed by the provisions of Sections 7(A), 106 and 107 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
The Plaintiff is also seeking a declaration that the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission OYSIEC is incompetent to prescribe conditions for the nomination, eligibility, qualifications and disqualifications of candidates contesting the local government council elections in Oyo State outside the conditions stipulated by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
The party is however, seeking a declaration that Section 5(H) of the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission Guide for the conduct of local government elections into local government areas are contrary to the provisions of sections 7(4), 106 and 107of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended) which provided for the nomination, eligibility, qualifications and disqualifications of candidates at the local government councils in Nigeria and are therefore unconstitutional, null, void and of no effect whatsoever.
