A? Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, adjourned judgement indefinitely in the suit filed by a faction of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Katsina State challenging the withdrawal of their certificates of return by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The trial judge, Justice Gladys Olotu, who had earlier fixed judgment for yesterday told parties when the matter came up that she was not ready with it and would notify them when she was ready.
Two senators and eight members of the House of Representatives dragged INEC, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Clerk of the National Assembly, CPC and 10 members of the National Assembly before the court over INEC’s action that saw them out of the National Assembly.
The Plaintiffs have, through their lawyer; Yahaya Mahmood (SAN) asked the court to nullify the certificates of return issued by INEC to Senator Abubakar Sadiq Yar’adua, Senator Abubakar Hadi Sirika and eight other members of the House of Representatives, who are 5th to 14th Defendants in the suit.
They want the court to order the lawmakers to vacate their seats in the National Assembly and that the court should declare that the electoral body lacked the power to cancel, nullify, review, withdraw, void, invalidate either directly or indirectly, the certificates of return validly issued to them consequent upon their winning elections to represent their respective Federal Constituencies and Senatorial Districts in Katsina State, without an order of the court first sought and obtained.
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