2019  Election Guidelines: 61 Parties Drag INEC To Court

...61 political parties head to court to stop INEC from releasing the manipulated 2019 election guideline.

...Section 155 of the Electoral Act gives political parties power to challenge INEC election guideline in court.

...move aimed at nullifying the INEC election guideline for been in conflict with Electoral Act and the 1999 Constitution.

...political parties predict 2019 pre-election crisis over INEC unilateral decision to issue guideline which does not promote Election credibility 

...political parties demand INEC Retention of 2015 separate accreditation and separate voting system to avoid confusing voters due to closeness of polls.

...Chairmen of political parties demand emergency meeting with INEC

... political parties mobilising for vote of no confidence on INEC chairman, if he goes ahead to release controversial guideline without input of political parties

The battle over the controversial INEC draft guidelines for the 2019 General election have taken a new dimension with the decision of the majority of  chairmen of Nigeria political parties to head to court tomorrow Monday, January 14, 2019 to stop INEC from releasing the guideline and also quash some sections of the draft guidelines which are in conflict with the provisions of the 1999 constitution including the obnoxious provisions inserted into the guideline which will lead to massive rigging of the 2019 elections.

The suit which will be filled tomorrow at the Federal High court by 10am have 4 National Chairmen of 4 political parties suing on behalf of the rest of the 61 Political parties against the Guideline.

The Plaintiffs (IKENGA IMO UGOCHINYERE APP PARTY, DR.SAM EKE GPN PARTY, NSEHE NSEOBONG RP PARTY AND BARR. KENNETH UDEZE AA PARTY) will be seeking for an Exparte Application for an injunction to restrain the INEC chairman from going ahead with the Monday planned release of the controversial guideline which majority of the Nations Political Parties (Over 61) have rejected over non consultation, obnoxious clauses and the violation of the Constitution. 

The chairmen of the political parties still insist that the only way to have free and fair election is for those obnoxious clauses contained in the gudileine which does not promote free and fair elections to be expunged and that the INEC chairmen summons an emergency meeting with Political Parties chairmen to finally address the grey areas contained in the guidelines to avoid the 2019 election running into a hitch and credibility crisis even before the day of election.

The parties still insist that the chairman of INEC retains the 2011 and 2015 separate accreditation and separate voting system which Nigerian voters are fully familiar with and avoid creating confusion and loophole for massive tampering of result with the continuous/same time accreditation and voting. INEC recently tried the method in few re-runs but that is not enough to extend such voting method  to all parts of the country few weeks to the election.

The demand of party chairmen is for INEC to continue the separate accreditation and separate voting system and ensure that at the end of accreditation across the country on election day, that inec polling unit staff first announce the total polling unit accredited figures and sign and issue out to party agents at the polling unit before commencement of voting thereby protecting the sanctity of the votes by securing the accreditation figures which if announced before voting and given to agents it will make post election and voting manipulation difficult because the accreditation figures are already out and riggers cant tamper with the election outcome or increase the votes again.

Other contentious issues are the flawed accreditation procedure which allows fake voters whose names are not on the voters register including people with fake PVC or voters not properly accredited been allowed to vote.

The party chairmen are currently mobilising more party leaders to move against the INEC chairman in the event that he goes ahead to issue out the guideline without the input of the political parties and without removing the obnoxious clauses which will ruin free and fair election. The options on the table of the political parties chairmen will not stop on tomorrow’s court action but will include a vote of no confidence on the INEC chairman and the commison including a call to step down and a persona non grata declaration and mass protest to alert Nigerians that the 2019 election process have been manipulated