Photo: INEC Chairman, Mahmoud Yakubu
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council Election Petitions Tribunal has ordered the arrest of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu for contempt of court.
The tribunal chairman, Chief Magistrate F. Oyekan, gave the order while delivering ruling on an application moved by C.I. Okoye, the lead counsel to the applicants.
According to the tribunal, its decision was based on the refusal of the INEC Chairman to obey its earlier order to produce documents named in a subpoena served on him on July 22, 2022, in a petition marked: FCT/ACET/EP/7/2022.
The tribunal described Yakubu’s failure to produce the documents as a flagrant disobedience of the order of the court, which must attract appropriate consequences under the law.
It, therefore, ordered the Inspector General of Police (IGP) or the Commissioner of Police for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to arrest the INEC boss and produce him before the tribunal on Friday,
The Judge held that the INEC boss must come to show cause why he should not be committed to prison for contempt of court.
