After receiving certain documents from the INEC as ordered by court, an Akure based lawyer, has released analysis of part of the INEC documents.
The lawyer in a Press statement on Sunday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said “Examining the Certified True Copies but Fraudulent Audited 2023 General Election Incomes and Expenditures of Selected Nigerian Political Parties; Tears for a Nation in Dire Need of Leaders with Integrity.”
“On 30th September, 2024, I issued a press statement disclosing that I had commenced contempt charges against INEC, her Chairman (Professor Mahmoud Yakubu) and the Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (Oluwatoyin Babalola) for disobeying the landmark judgment delivered on 17th April, 2024 by Hon. Justice T.B Adegoke of the Akure Judicial Division of the Federal High Court in Suit FHC/AK/CS/72/2023, which ordered INEC to publish and avail me the 2021 and 2022 Audited Financial Statements of all the registered political parties in Nigeria, as well as their separate Audited 2023 election related incomes and expenses.
“Shortly before the contempt proceedings began in court on 22nd October, 2024, INEC supplied me the certified true copies of the 2021 Audited Statements of Account of the parties and their 2023 Election Related Incomes and Expenditure.
“INEC also deposed to and served me an affidavit that the parties had not submitted their 2022 Audited Statements of Account till date, due to what she blamed on preparations for the 2023 General Elections.
“Most importantly, INEC admitted that none of the Audited 2023 Election Incomes and Expenditures submitted by the parties complied with the strict requirements of Section 89 of the Electoral Act, 2022, as a result of which she wrote each of the parties on 2nd September, 2024 to demand compliance within two weeks, including the statutory requirement
1for the parties to publish the Audited Accounts in at least two national
newspapers. Clearly, however, the parties have all rebuffed INEC’s demands in the letters.”
