We Will Commit INEC Chairman To Prison – Emerhor

Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, has said that National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, would be committed to prison for violation of court order.

Emerhor who spoke to newsmen in Abuja, said that his faction of the party is set to approach a competent court to press a committal charges against the INEC boss.

He stated this following the refusal of INEC chairman to obey court orders, which restrained him from recognising candidates that emerged in parallel primaries conducted by the two factions of Delta State APC.

BigPen Online recalls that Emerhor also contested for the senatorial ticket of Delta Central district in the primaries in view of the factional crisis enveloping the state chapter of the APC.

After the factional primaries, his group had approached the court and secured a court order stopping INEC from publishing the names of candidates for National Assembly, governorship and State Assembly posts.

He said that despite the court order, INEC had gone ahead to publish names of candidates thus disobeying the court order.

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According to him, the APC faction has served the commission with Form 48, to start the contempt of court proceedings, adding that the party would have no choice than to slam contempt charge on the INEC chairman and commit him to prison.

He added that his faction of APC in the state had also written the electoral commission twice through its counsel , Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) but added that INEC had so far ignored the party.

“It is very clear that we have no choice than to go for committal to prison of the INEC Chairman. That will be our next step because we cannot accept that a court will give an order and INEC will not obey.

“I can understand if the APC does not want to even obey, not that I understand it, but because the prior action of the National Chairman has shown that he does not take our group seriously.

“So, I can understand that and if you want to damn the consequences of the court as a partisan in this matter, I can understand it; but not the INEC Chairman. The INEC Chairman ought to be independent because the constituency of the country is his. He has no personal interest in this matter. So, you ought to obey the court.”

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