In the ruling, Justice Isa H. Dashen mandated that INEC, its employees, agents, privies, or assigns refrain from receiving, accepting, or acting “in any way whatsoever on any purported petitions submitted to the defendant by any person or persons whatsoever, containing fictitious signatures and names of purported members of Kogi State Central Senatorial District of Kogi State.”

Additionally, INEC is prohibited from conducting “any referendum whatsoever upon such Petition to initiate a re-call process of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as Senator representing the said Senatorial District in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” until a Motion on Notice is decided.

The application was filed by Smart Nwachinemere, Esq. of West-Idahosa, SAN & Co., and was backed by a “Affidavit of Extreme Urgency.”

“The enrolled order of this Honourable Court along with the Motion on Notice be served on the Defendant/Respondent pending the determination of the substantive suit,” Justice Dashen further said.

For a service report and additional discussion, the case has been postponed until May 6, 2025.