18th November, 2015
Henry Ojelu([email protected])
An Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere has fixed January 18, 2016 to hear the stay of execution application filed by the Lagos government against a judgment directing the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC to conduct elections for the state .
The court had last month in a judgment granted an Order of Mandamus directing LASIEC to publish electoral guidelines and time table within 30 days for election to be conducted in line with the provisions of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission Law.
The suit was filed by the National Conscience Party.
The court also declared as unconstitutional the appointment of Caretaker Committees as administrators of Local Government Councils in the State.
Being dissatisfied, Lagos State had immediately filed an appeal against the judgment and applied for a stay of the execution of the Court’s Judgment pending the determination of the Appeal.
The Lagos State Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem, personally appeared before the presiding judge Hon. Justice A. M. Lawal at Wednesday’s proceeding.
Mr A. A Osara, from the Law Firm of Femi Okunnu SAN & Co, Counsel representing LASIEC, informed the Court that his client had also filed a Notice of Appeal and an application for an Injunction Pending Appeal/Stay of Execution of the judgment pending the hearing and determination of the appeal against the judgment.
Counsel who represented the Applicant, National Conscience Party [NCP], Mr Kingsley Izimah, however requested for time to respond to the applications.
The Court subsequently adjourned the matter to January 18, 2016 for hearing of the Applications