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Court Stops Ondo Electoral Body from Conducting LG polls An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure has barred the State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) from conducting the local government elections scheduled for December 1. In a suit marked Ak/195/2018 and filed by the Idowu Otetubi led faction of the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC against the party’s chairman in the state, Ade Adetimehin, the State Executive Committee of the party, the APC as well as the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC), the applicant had prayed that the court should restrain the 4th defendant which is ODIEC from accepting any lists of candidates from the Adetimehin led faction of the party ahead of the December 1 local government polls. Justice Kolawole of the Ondo State High Court after hearing the submission of the applicant’s counsel, Tolu Babaleye, granted the prayer of the applicants and gave an order of interim injunction restraining ODIEC from condu