An Owerri High Court has struck out a suit filed by the embattled National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance Victor Oye, seeking to remove Chukwuma Umeoji as the party’s candidate for the Anambra governorship election.
The court also dismissed Oye’s plea to mandate the Independent National Electoral Commission to delist Umeoji’s name from its published document and replace him with that of Charles Soludo.
Delivering the judgment, the presiding Judge, Justice Victoria C. Isiguzo equally insisted that its earlier judgment which declared Jude Okeke as APGA National Chairman remains valid.
READ ALSO: BREAKING: UEFA Announces 3 Nominees For 2021 Men’s Player Of The Year Awards
Isiguzo also ruled that INEC should continue to accept, recognize and include Umeoji’s name in all electoral processes for the Anambra guber election unless otherwise ruled by an Appeal Court.
The judge, however, granted Oye the leave to appeal against the judgment but refused his prayer for stay of execution of the judgment.
“That leave is hereby granted to the Applicant to Appeal as an interested party against the judgment/Orders of this Honourable Court (Coram, B.C. Iheka, J.) delivered on the 28th July 2021 in Suit No HOW/543/2021; Chike Dike V. INEC & 2 ors to the Court of Appeal.
“Prayer 2 for stay of execution of the judgment delivered on the 28th July 2021 is hereby refused. The Judgment of this court in suit No HOW/543/2021 is still subsisting and binding,” part of the ruling reads.
-Advertisement-
“The Judgment being a final judgment remains valid, subsisting, until set aside by an appellate court.”
We do everything possible to supply quality news and information to all our valuable readers day in, day out and we are committed to keep doing this.
Your kind donation will help our continuous research efforts.
-Advertisement-
-Want to get the news as it breaks?-
