Barely 24 hours after his exit because the chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, the Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Wednesday, issued a recent order to the Inspector Common of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest the rapid previous INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, for contempt of court docket.
The Motion Alliance had instituted a case earlier than the court docket difficult INEC and its rapid previous chairman, Yakubu, over the fee’s non-compliance with the judgment of the Courtroom delivered by Justice Funmilola Demi-Ajayi in swimsuit quantity FHC/OS/CS/194/2024.
The court docket had within the mentioned judgment ordered INEC to place the names of the Nationwide Chairman of the Motion Alliance, Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, and different members of the get together’s Nationwide Government Committee on the INEC portal.
The Courtroom additionally held that the names of all of the state chairmen of the AA be uploaded on the INEC portal.
The court docket held that the elective conference of the AA held on the seventh of October, 2023 which produced Omoaje because the nationwide chairman of the get together and different NEC members of the get together was genuine because it was correctly monitored and supervised by officers of INEC in accordance with the get together’s structure and the electoral acts.
Though INEC claimed to have complied with the court docket judgment, the get together disagreed with the fee, because the identify of Omoaje was but to be uploaded on the fee’s web site regardless of the orders of the Courtroom.
The names of the state chairmen of the get together beneath the management of Omoaje and people of the NEC members are already on the INEC portal, however Omoaje’s identify had but to be uploaded as of press time, a growth that the court docket frowned at.
The court docket order dated seventh October, 2025, and signed by Mr O.M. Kilani, on behalf of the Courtroom Registrar, learn partially, “It’s hereby ordered that the Inspector Common of Police shall trigger the arrest and shall cost the defendant/judgment debtors for contempt and committal proceedings inside seven days of this ruling.”
The court docket additionally awarded a price of N100,000 towards the judgment collectors.