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March 28, 2019
JusticeInyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, has fixed April 2, to deliverjudgment in a motion filed by the governorship candidate of the African ActionCongress,AAC in Rivers, Biokpomabo Awara, praying the court to stop the INECfrom resuming the collation and announcement of results of the state’sgovernorship election.
Respondentsin the suit are the INEC and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
INECNational Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye,announced that the electoral body would resume the collation and announcementof results of the election between April 2 and April 5.
Awarais urging the court to stop INEC from concluding the collation and announcementof the result, saying he was the clear winner of the March 9 election havingwon 15 of the 23 local government areas in the state.
INEChad suspended collation following disruption of the process at some collationcentres by alleged thugs.