Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, has fixed April 2, to deliver judgment in a motion filed by the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress,AAC in Rivers, Biokpomabo Awara, praying the court to stop the INEC from resuming the collation and announcement of results of the state’s governorship election.
Respondents in the suit are the INEC and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
INEC National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye, announced that the electoral body would resume the collation and announcement of results of the election between April 2 and April 5.
Awara is urging the court to stop INEC from concluding the collation and announcement of the result, saying he was the clear winner of the March 9 election having won 15 of the 23 local government areas in the state.
INEC had suspended collation following disruption of the process at some collation centres by alleged thugs.
