The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will keep up with its logistics arrangements for the elections, which start this Saturday, according to Lagos State’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje.
InsideOjodu had reported on Monday that Justice Chukwuejekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos, restrained INEC from engaging the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, or any of its commercial bus drivers in the distribution of election materials for the February 25 and March 11 polls.
Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, the head of the transport union and a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party in power, is the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee.
After an application for an interlocutory injunction made by the Labour Party, LP, African Democratic Congress, ADC, and Boot Party, BP, Justice Aneke issued a restraining order on Monday.
The parties filed the lawsuit in Lagos with their candidates for governor, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (LP), Funsho Doherty (ADC), and Wale Oluwo (Boot Party).
In the lawsuit, INEC is the only defendant.
The attorney claimed in the affidavit submitted in support of the application that the Lagos State Government ended the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ operations in the state in April 2022.
The state government established the Lagos State Parks Management Committee to manage the issues of commercial bus drivers, vehicle parks, and garages in the state in place of the NURTW, of which MC Oluomo was a chieftain.
The REC, Agbaje, responded to the decision by claiming that because he hadn’t been served with the lawsuit, he was unaware of it.
He added, “Nobody is dealing with Oluomo here. I said it several times. We are not dealing with Oluomo.
“The owners of the vehicles are at the local government level.
“Anybody who says we are dealing with Oluomo should provide the evidence. And we don’t have any problem with mobilisation in Lagos State.
“We don’t have any challenge at all in INEC Lagos State. All the arrangement is going on smoothly. We are not aware of any court judgment because nobody served us any court papers.
“The issue of Oluomo does not arise in the first instance. We are going on with our arrangement and we don’t have anything to fear.”