Court stops INEC from engaging MC Oluomo in material distribution

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from engaging the services of the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute election materials in the state, aso Naija reports.

It was reported that INEC in Lagos State had reacted to a backlash following a letter written by MC Oluomo asking the electoral umpire to contract the distribution of materials to him, saying it (INEC) was engaging parks managers in the state and not MC Oluomo.

The Residential Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State, Olusegun Agbaje, had 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.

“ however, 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 patronizing them.

“It will be we working against the law if we have to be working with the banned associations. So it cannot work.”