APC files suit to restrain LP, PDP from stopping collation of results
CITIZENS COMPASS– THE All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Tuesday, filed a suit to restrain the Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party to prevent the continuous announcement and collation of results of the poll.
The candidate and its party commenced the legal battle to prevent moves by the opposition parties to halt the ongoing collation of Saturday’s presidential election results.
The suit was marked FHC/KN/CS/43/2023 and filed before the Federal High Court in Kano.
The Action Alliance and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were joined as defendants while the APC vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, was also listed as a plaintiff.
According to Daily Trust, the plaintiffs in a motion on notice filed alongside the originating summons asked the court to make the order restraining the defendants from stopping the collation and announcement of the results.
They argued that “damages will not adequately compensate for the injury that may be occasioned on the Plaintiffs if by the Defendants stop the collation of the result.”
–Daily Trust