Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has been charged with refusal to execute a court judgment.

A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, has therefore, fixed February 10, to commence contempt of court proceedings against him.

The court had, on October 31, 2014, delivered a judgment, ordering INEC to restore forthwith, Ughelli South 1 and Isoko North 1 constituencies, which were in 1998, kept from public knowledge by the electoral umpire.

INEC, however, filed for a stay of execution against the judgment in the same court.

While dismissing the application on February 3, the presiding judge, Justice Shitu Abubakar, contended that INEC had crossed its bounds by deliberately delaying the implementation of the ruling of the court.

Counsel for the plaintiffs, Chief Efe Akpofure, described the quashing of INEC’s application for stay of execution as nothing short of a good judgment.

According to Akpofure, since the ruling had to do with the restoration of state constituencies, in order to participate in the February 28 elections, the case deserved an accelerated implementation.

Counsel for INEC, Mr Efa Oka, said INEC was under obligation to execute the judgment, since the application for stay of execution had been quashed.