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March 20, 2019
The Federal High Court, has declined to give anorder stopping the collation of results of the Governorship and House of Assemblyelections conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC inRivers on March 9.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, in his ruling in an applicationfiled by the plaintiffs, Biokpomabo Awara and Ben-Gurion Peter of the AfricanAction Congress, held that the application was such that the court could notgrant without hearing from the other parties.
The plaintiffs, represented by Tawo Tawo, SAN, in anex parte application, prayed for an order, stopping INEC from resumingcollation, concluding and announcing the results of the March 9 election inRivers.
The judge, rather ordered the plaintiffs to put therespondents, INEC and the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP on notice and fixedMarch 25 for both the plaintiffs and respondents to appear before him to argue theircase.
Earlier, Justice Ekwo drew the attention of the plaintiffs’ counsel to  news making the rounds that he had already restrained INEC from going ahead to take further action on the Rivers election.