Musiliu Akinsanya known as MC Oluomo and his Lagos Stare Parks Management Committee would no longer be able to distribute election materials in Lagos State.
MC Oluomo had earlier gotten permission from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to have commercial bus drivers distribute the materials.
However, Justice Chukwujekwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped it.
The court granted “an order of interlocutory injunction filed by the Labour Party and five others”.
The order restrains INEC, whether by itself or by its officers, affiliates, servants, privies, or agents from taking any steps regarding the engagement of the MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks Management Committee or any of its commercial bus drivers in the distribution of 2023 election materials and personnel in Lagos State.
This bar was put in place pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
INEC Reacts To Backlash Following Oluomo Approval
INEC in Lagos State reacted to a backlash following a letter written by MC Oluomo asking the electoral umpire to allow him to distribute election materials.
“We are engaging parks managers in the state and not MC Oluomo,” says Olusegun Agbaje the Residential Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Lagos.
“On the issue of MC Oluomo, the commission is not concerned with Oluomo.
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“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,” Agbaje said.
According to the REC, the commission is already working with NARTO but it “is not able to meet up with the 40 percent needs of the commission for this election”.
This led to the commission’s consideration of engaging the MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks and Garages.
“We are not dealing with MC Oluomo,” Agbaje 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 patronising them.
“It will be we working against the law if we have to be working with the banned associations. So it cannot work.”
