BREAKING: Double voting, underage voters bring INEC, AGF to court

In order to get the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and another party removed from the 2023 voter list, Nigerian citizen Prince Ozodinobi has filed a lawsuit against them.

The plaintiff stated in a lawsuit with the file number FHC/ABJ/CS/24/2023 that “the commencement of every credible or otherwise election comes from the reliability of the Voters’ Register.”

He stated that, in violation of Nigerian election regulations, “the Voters’ Register” as it is now being kept by the 1st Defendant for the purposes of the 2023 General Election is severely contaminated and plagued with underage registrants and multiple registrants.

1. Whether in view of a community reading of Section 117(2) and Part I of the Third Schedule to the amended 1999 Constitution, Sections 12 (1), 19 and 20 of the Electoral Act, 2022 a credible general election can be conducted by the 1^stDefendant on the basis of a Voters’ Register containing “double registrants” and under-aged voters?
2. Whether having regard to section 117(2) and Part I of the Third Schedule to the amended 1999 Constitution, Section 12 (1), 19 and 20 of the Electoral Act, 2022 it is not unconstitutional for the 1^stDefendant to conduct a general election with a Voters’ Register besmirched/afflicted with  “double registrants” and under-aged voters?

And against the answers that may be proffered to the foregoing questions of law, the Plaintiff seeks the following reliefs in full:

1. A DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that in view of a community reading of Section 117(2) and Part I of the Third Schedule to the amended 1999 Constitution, Sections 12 (1), 19 and 20 of the Electoral Act, 2022 a credible general election cannot be conducted by the 1^st Defendant on the basis of a Voters’ Register containing “double registrants” and under-aged voters.
2. A DECLARATION of this Honourable Court that having regard to section 117(2) and Part I of the Third Schedule to the amended 1999 Constitution, Section 12 (1), 19 and 20 of the Electoral Act, 2022 it is not unconstitutional for the 1^st Defendant to conduct a general election with a Voters’ Register besmirched/afflicted with  “double registrants” and under-aged voters
3. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court expunging FORTHWITH, from the Voters’ Register maintained by the 1^stDefendant, the list of double registrants and under-aged voters as identified and assembled by the Plaintiffs in Exhibit A of the affidavit supporting this Originating Summons.
4. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court restraining the 1^st Defendant from conducting the 2023 General Elections with a Voters’ Register containing the list of double registrants and under-aged voters as identified and assembled by the Plaintiffs in Exhibit A of the affidavit supporting this Originating Summons.
5. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court appointing a reputable Auditing Firm [including but not limited to either; PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), KPMG, Deloitte & Touche and Ernst & Young to carry out external forensic audit on the Voters’ Register maintained by the 1^st Defendant with a view to removing all under-aged and double registrants from the Voters’ Register before the 2023 General Elections.
6. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the Federal Government of Nigeria, as represented by the 2^ndDefendant, to bear the cost of the external forensic audit to be carried out on the INEC’s Voters’ Register by the court-appointed Auditing Firm.
7. ANY OTHER ORDER OR ORDERS that this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the entire circumstances of this case.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, was listed as the 2nd Defendant in the case.

Filed alongside is a motion for abridgment of time and accelerated hearing application which has not been given a date for hearing and determination.