Right Activist Drags Aiyedatiwa to Court Over Postponement of LG Polls
Human right activist and lawyer, Tope Temokun Esq. of Tope Temokun Chambers has dragged Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to court over indefinite suspension of local governments election.
He prayed the court to compel Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission(ODSIEC) to commence the election process of local council election immediately.
Temokun said the action of Governor Aiyedatiwa in appointing transition committees to run the affairs of local governments in the state runs contrary to the constitutional provision of the federation.
He claimed that by the action of the governor, he has been deprived of voting power to elect chairman and councillors for his local council area to manage the affairs of the council as ruled by the Supreme Court.
In the originating summon filed in Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure on Monday, July 29, 2024, the 1-3 defendants are Governor of Ondo State, Attorney General of Ondo State and Ondo. State Independent Electoral Commission(ODSIEC) respectively.
The applicant approached the court with 11 prayers seeking among others that court should declare that the first and second defendants “cannot defer compliance with the decision of the Supreme Court contained in the judgment in Suit No: SC/CV/343/2024-AG FEDERATION V. AG ABIA STATE & ORS delivered on the 11th day of July 2024, to a later or convenient day or date or time.”
He also prayed the court to declare that “the defendants are under an immediate obligation to put in place democratically elected Local Government Councils, to govern or administer or oversee the affairs of the Local Government Areas in Ondo State, for the purpose of enforcing and giving effect to the orders of the Supreme Court contained in the judgment in Suit No: SC/CV/343/2024-AG FEDERATION V. AG ABIA STATE & ORS delivered on the 11th day of July 2024.”
Also, the applicant sought an “ORDER of this Honourable Court directing and/or mandating the defendants to immediately put in place democratically elected Local Government Councils, to govern or administer or oversee the affairs of the Local Government Areas in Ondo State, for the purpose of enforcing and giving effect to the orders of the Supreme Court contained in the judgment in Suit No: SC/CV/343/2024-AG FEDERATION V. AG ABIA STATE & ORS delivered on the 11th day of July 2024.”
The application was supported with a 28-paragraph affidavit disposed to by the applicant.
No date has been fixed for the hearing of the matter.
