Nigeria, March 21 -- The Federal High Court, Lokoja, has granted an interim injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from receiving petitions for the purpose of initiating a recall process against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

Recall that the move to recall the suspended senator heightened on Thursday, with more groups in Kogi Central throwing their weight behind the process.

However, a group of Ebira indigenes dismissed the claim that the recall process was being sponsored and influenced with money by Akpoti-Uduaghan's political opponents.

In the same vain, the court, which gave the order on Thursday, also restricted INEC staff, agents, privies, or assigns from accepting or acting on any petition ...