COUNSEL for the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), said on Friday that the arrest warrant issued on the INEC boss could not stand because it was patently flawed. Awomolo, in an appeal filed before the Court of Appeal in Abuja, raised six objections which he claimed nullified the arrest warrant as a misnomer. “The Supreme Court has said it that you cannot say someone is guilty of contempt of court until you have exhausted all the preliminary objections. According to him, beside the fact that no enrolment was served on the INEC boss, the warrant of arrest was against the Supreme Court judgement. The Supreme Court had held in this same case that where jurisdiction is being challenged the chairman did not have to personally appear.

Source: Nigerian Tribune August 04, 2018 06:22 UTC