The Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned until July 22, 2026, for further mention in the ₦10 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Nollywood actor and politician, Emeka Ike, against the Independent National Electoral Commission and Lere Olayinka, media aide to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1272/2026, is before Justice S. O. Ibrahim.
At the resumed proceedings, counsel for the plaintiff, L. T. Adeh, informed the court that the first respondent, Olayinka, had served his response to the suit.
Adeh also told the court that hearing notices had been served on both respondents, but noted that the second respondent, INEC, was absent from court.
He consequently prayed the court for an adjournment to enable the electoral body to appear and participate in the proceedings.
Counsel for Olayinka, Akpama Ekwe, did not oppose the application for adjournment, but told the court that he was ready to proceed with the matter.
Adeh further informed the court that he would file his response to the first respondent’s counter-affidavit between Thursday and Friday.
Justice Ibrahim, in a short ruling, said the court would grant a brief adjournment in the interest of fair hearing and to afford INEC an opportunity to appear.
Ekwe, however, urged the court to fix the matter for hearing, arguing that INEC could not be compelled to appear.
The judge maintained that the short adjournment was necessary to give the electoral body another opportunity to participate in the proceedings.
He subsequently adjourned the case until July 22 for further mention.
The court also ordered that INEC be served with a hearing notice alongside all processes filed in the suit before the next adjourned date.
The suit stems from allegations that Ike’s personal voter registration details were unlawfully disclosed on Olayinka’s official X handle after screenshots showing the transfer of his voter registration from Imo State to the Federal Capital Territory surfaced on social media.
Ike contends that the information was published without his consent and allegedly accessed from a restricted INEC administrative portal.
He is seeking ₦10 billion in damages for the alleged breach of his right to privacy.
The actor is also asking the court to order the removal of the social media post and compel a public apology.
INEC had earlier maintained that the incident did not result from a cyberattack on its database, but from the alleged misuse of authorised internal access credentials.
Speaking with journalists after the proceedings, counsel for Olayinka, Ekwe, described the evidence tendered by the plaintiff as inadmissible.
He argued that his client did not breach any law or commit any offence.
According to him, INEC had already issued a statement stating that there was no breach of its servers.