By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja
The Labour Party, LP, and its candidate in the recently concluded gubernatorial election in Kogi state, Mrs Aisha Abubakar Audu, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and its chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

The party is alleging that the electoral body failed to include its logo in the ballot papers that were used during the governorship election that held in the state on December 3, arguing that it had an adverse effect on the number of votes that were garnered by its candidate.

Specifically, the plaintiff is praying the high court for “a declaration that the non-inclusion of the party’s logo on the ballot papers used for the December 3 governorship election in Kogi state amounts to unlawful exclusion of the party and its candidate from participating in the election.”

As well as “a declaration that such oversight on the part of INEC, amounted to gross negligence that subjected the 1st plaintiff to abysmal humiliation, untold hardship, psychological torture and degradation in the eyes of the right thinking members of the society and the party supporters.”

In a 31-paragraph statement of claim that was deposed before the high court by the 1st plaintiff, Aisha, who is the ex-wife to the former governor of the state, Abubakar Audu, she averred that the party on March 22, 2011, wrote a letter to INEC drawing its attention to specific errors that were identified in the logo it ascribed to the party.