The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday issued an interim order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from going ahead with its plan to end the ongoing voter registration exercise on June 30.
The judge, Mobolaji Olajuwon, made the interim order in a ruling on an application for an interim injunction by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 185 other concerned Nigerians.
The applicants had urged the court to extend the voter registration period to avert illegal disenfranchisement of many yet-to-be-registered Nigerians willing to vote in various elections.
According to a statement by SERAP on Monday, the applicants filed the suit after INEC extended the deadline for the conduct of primaries by political parties by six days, from June 3 to June 9, but failed to also extend the online pre-registration which ended May 30, 2022 and the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) ending June 30, 2022.
The statement disclosed further that the court, after granting the applicant’s request for an interim order extending the voter registration deadline, adjourned the case until June 29.
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