 A federal high court sitting in Port Hackett has reserved September the 26th for hearing of all applications and originating summons in a suit instituted by the People's Democratic Party, the PDP, against the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, and the National Assembly candidates of the All Progressive Congress in River State. When the matter was brought to the court, a presiding judge just as Steven Dillopam after receiving applications from the defendants, asked him to rescue himself from the case. Speaking outside the courtrooms, Ezemuye Ezekiel Amadi, who appeared for himself in court as the 12th defendant and the APC candidate for inquiry, Umua federal constituency, explained what transpired in court. Today I tried to prevail on the presiding judge to allow me, in obedience to the directive of the administrative judge, to allow me to present my application before him so that he can make a pronouncement on my application. And once again, he refused. I also want to put on record that everything that I said in court here, he refused to record me. At this point in time, I can tell you, tension is beginning to build up, and if anything goes wrong, I want to be quoted, if anything goes wrong, then just his palm must be held responsible. If this matter had been reassigned long ago, who would have gotten to the point of hearing the matter, and then by now, maybe would have adjourned for judgement. One of the councils for the PDP, DK Udena, described the defendants as being jumpy about the case, noting that defiled their applications and served on parties the same morning and expected the court to entertain the motions. Section 285 of the 1999 constitution also makes it clear that all objections should be taking along with the substantive case in matters of this nature, that is, in election and in pre-election matters. So it is on the basis of those provisions that the Llanetriac court had directed consistent with the constitutional provision that all the applications would be taking together. If he agrees that good reasons have been given, why he should accuse himself, then of course, naturally, the application will end and the matter will be sent away. Most of the applications had not been served on parties, and the President George felt that it was not ripe for hearing, and the Llanetriac court adjourned the matter to the 26th of September, wherein all parties would have been served with the processes. Heard that he's going to hear the applications for recusor and the substantive matter that has originated so much of PDP all together, and that was what caused some stir from some of the candidates who were caught. Ezekiel Amadi, another defendant, reiterated that they do not have confidence in any pronouncement that justice palm would make, and that it's ruling on hearing all applications in one day is like hearing the matter from the back door.