The Federal High Court in Lagos, presided over by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke, has issued an interim order preventing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from enlisting the services of Musiliu Akinsanya, also known as MC Oluomo, who is the Chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, to distribute election materials in Lagos State.
This order was granted in response to a lawsuit filed by the Labour Party and five other parties, and it prohibits INEC, its officers, affiliates, servants, privies, agents, or any other individual acting on their behalf, from taking any action to engage MC Oluomo or any member of the Parks Management Committee to distribute election materials or personnel in Lagos State until the substantive case has been heard and determined.
Meanwhile, the Residential Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje, made a statement regarding this, he said “On the issue of MC Oluomo, ” the commission is not concerned with Oluomo. We are concerned with the issue of motor park administration in Lagos.
“For the past two years, the Lagos State government has banned the operations of the NURTW and RTEAN in the state. They had problems and the state government banned them.
““So we are left with Lagos State Park and Garages and the National Association of Road Transport Owners,” adding that NARTO, which, according to him, the commission was already working with, “is not able to meet up with the 40 per cent needs of the commission for this election,” hence the commission’s consideration of engaging the MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks and Garages.
“We are not dealing with MC Oluomo,” Agbaje had said, adding that “we are dealing with park managers. They are individual persons that have vehicles that we are going to use for the elections.
“The law has already banned the NURTW from operating in the state so we cannot violate the law by patronising them.
“It will be we working against the law if we have to be working with the banned associations. So it cannot work.”
