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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to court over the commission’s failure to investigate allegations of electoral violence and other electoral offences including bribery against some state governors and their deputies during the 2023 elections.
According to SERAP, the recently concluded presidential and national assembly elections and governorship elections in some states witnessed widespread reports of voter suppression, voter intimidation, and the destruction or theft of election materials by political party agents and thugs across the six geopolitical zones as reported by the media.
In the suit filed last Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja SERAP, is asking the court for an order of mandamus compelling INEC to seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate allegations of electoral offences against state governors and their deputies during the 2023 elections.
The suit was filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyers, Kolawole Oluwadare, Andrew Nwankwo, and Ms Blessing Ogwuche.
