Ade Adesomoju, AbujaKogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has urged the Supreme Court to declare the petitions submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission seeking his recall as illegal. The Senator in an appeal he filed against the March 16, 2018 judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, also urged the apex court to declare the recall process as illegal. With the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of the suit, the preconditions earlier given by the Federal High Court in Abuja for INEC to fulfill before continuing the recall were set aside. The appeal court’s judgment therefore paved the way for INEC to continue the recall process which had been stalled by Melaye’s suit. Following the Court of Appeal’s judgment, INEC had announced that the recall process would resume on April 28.

Source: Punch April 05, 2018 17:03 UTC