High Court upholds Ikpeazu's election
Fri Jul 08, 2016 03:49:pm Politics
2.4K By Buchi Obichie
A Federal High Court in Owerri on Friday affirmed the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu as Governor of Abia State.
The Presiding Judge, Justice A.I Allagoa dismissed the case, as he ruled that the plaintiff, Friday Nwosu, was unable to prove that the Governor's tax documents were forged.
On Monday, June 27, Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja High Court had declared Ikpeazu unfit to occupy the Abia State Governor's office for allegedly submitting false information to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, ahead of the party's Governorship Primary in December 2014.
Justice Abang ordered Ikpeazu to immediately vacate office, and also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to issue a Certificate of Return to Uche Ogah, who polled the second highest number of votes in the PDP primary.
Friday Nwosu had files suit claiming he ought to be sworn in as Governor, since Ikpeazu had been disqualified; and not Uche Ogah, who had refused to sign the result sheet for the PDP primary, while petitioning the party to conduct a fresh primary.
Nwosu was the first aspirant to file a tax forgery suit against Ikpeazu and joined Ogah as one of the respondents in Suit FHC/ABJ/CS/184/2015, FHC/UM/CS/64/2015 and FHC/CS/OW/191/2015.
The suit was initially filed at the Abuja High Court, before it was transferred to the Owerri High Court.
The Presiding Judge, Justice A.I Allagoa dismissed the case, as he ruled that the plaintiff, Friday Nwosu, was unable to prove that the Governor's tax documents were forged.
On Monday, June 27, Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja High Court had declared Ikpeazu unfit to occupy the Abia State Governor's office for allegedly submitting false information to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, ahead of the party's Governorship Primary in December 2014.
Justice Abang ordered Ikpeazu to immediately vacate office, and also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to issue a Certificate of Return to Uche Ogah, who polled the second highest number of votes in the PDP primary.
Friday Nwosu had files suit claiming he ought to be sworn in as Governor, since Ikpeazu had been disqualified; and not Uche Ogah, who had refused to sign the result sheet for the PDP primary, while petitioning the party to conduct a fresh primary.
Nwosu was the first aspirant to file a tax forgery suit against Ikpeazu and joined Ogah as one of the respondents in Suit FHC/ABJ/CS/184/2015, FHC/UM/CS/64/2015 and FHC/CS/OW/191/2015.
The suit was initially filed at the Abuja High Court, before it was transferred to the Owerri High Court.
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