Court rules Oyo to conduct LG elections

OYO State Government can now conduct elections into the 33 local councils  in the state as court discharged order preventing OYSIEC from previously conducting the election.

Contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the State Commissioner for information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun in Ibadan quoting the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Oluwaseun Abimbola, the government disclosed that Order 3 of the interim injunction forbidding INEC from releasing the voters register to OYSIEC for conduct of elections into LGs and LCDAs has been discharged by the court.

Mr. Abimbola noted, “in respect of the case filed by Oyo baales challenging the LCDAs and in which the court had issued an injunction preventing the conduct of elections into LG and LCDAs. I made an application to the court to discharge the part of the Interim order preventing our conduct of elections into LGs since the subject matter of the suit is only on the propriety of LCDAs and not LGs.

“The other counsels in the matter all conceded to the point as canvassed by the Oyo State Government on this matter. Consequently, the Order 3 of the Interim injunction forbidding INEC from releasing voters register to OYSIEC for conduct of elections into LGs and LCDAs has been discharged by the court. Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) is now at liberty to conduct LG elections only, but not into LCDAs which is still pending in court,” the Attorney General stated.

He, also hoped that this development would clear the air and misrepresentation by the people who believe that the state government was not interested in the conduct of the local government election, maintaining that the order secured is a demonstration to the fact that the state government is ready for the conduct of the election and the barrier has been removed.