Sowore’s Trial: INEC Challenges Court Order For Tinubu’s 1999, 2023 Election Records

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), through its Chairman, Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to set aside a subpoena compelling the electoral body to produce documents relating to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 1999 Lagos State governorship election and 2023 presidential election.

Court documents obtained on November 10, 2026, showed that the INEC chairman, through his lawyers, filed a Motion on Notice dated November 10, 2026, asking the court to nullify the subpoena issued on October 26, 2026, in the ongoing criminal trial of human rights activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele ...