INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION & ANOR V. EJIKE OGUEBEGO & ORS

CHIMA CENTUS NWEZE, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): My Lords, the events that prompted the proceedings culminating to the instant appeal trace their roots to injunctive orders of the Federal High Court: ex parte orders couched in these terms against the appellants herein:

"(a) That the first defendant (PDP), agents and privies are hereby restrained from forwarding, sending and submitting to the second defendant (INEC) any delegate list or nominated candidates that may emerge from the congress or primaries conducted by the Caretaker or Ad-hoc Committee set up by the defendant for the Peoples Democratic Party;

(b) That the first defendant, its agents, servants and privies are restrained from forwarding, sending or submitting to the second defendant, any delegates list or nominated candidates that may emerge from the congress for primaries conducted by the purported Caretaker committee set up by the first defendant for the Peoples Democratic Party, Anambra State Chapter, except thos…