Court Adjourns Suit Demanding Tinubu’s Governorship Particulars With INEC

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed a new date for the hearing of an application asking the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to release the particulars of Bola Tinubu during the 1999 and 2003 Governorship elections.

Naija News reports that the court fixed October 12 to hear the case after INEC presented no legal representation on the resumed date of sitting on Wednesday.

Mike Enahoro-Ebah Esq, in an application, sued INEC before Justice Donatus Okorowo, praying the court for the “nomination forms for governor and affidavits in support of personal particulars and all other documents attached thereto, submitted to the respondent by and on behalf of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the 1999 and 2003 Governorship Elections in Lagos State.”

He contended that his request is in line with the Freedom of Information Act.

The lawyer is apparently trying to determine the coherence of Tinubu’s particulars as governor and presidential candidate.

According to him, “The right of access to public documents in custody and possession of the respondent is inclusive of the right to institute civil proceedings in court to compel the respondent to issue same documents to anyone who applies for same, as established in Section 29 (4) of the Electoral Act, 2022, and Section 1 (3), Section 2 (6) and Section 7 (4) of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011.”

Subsequently, the judge adjourned the matter and directed that INEC be served with a hearing notice.