After the court of appeal in Abuja restrained Inec on Soludo's nomination,Prof Soludo filed a case in the supreme court as his last resort.

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Anambra 2010: Appeal Court stops Soludo
Cover Stories Dec 4, 2009 By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja
[b]The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal, presided over by Justice Mary Odili, Friday, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), not to recognise Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra state, pending the hearing and determination of a suit before it, challenging his nomination.
The appellate court  further ordered the embattled former Central Bank governor to desist forthwith from soliciting  votes or parading himself as the party’s candidate until   the controversy trailing his nomination process is finally resolved.  The court said  that status_quo ante_bellum should be maintained by all the parties in the matter.

Justice Odili who gave the interim injunction in a short ruling yesterday after counsel to the appellants, Mr. Sani Abubakar, drew the attention of the court to the fact that Soludo had already flagged_off his political campaign despite the subsisting appeal challenging his nomination was  adjourned  till the 14th of this month.[/b]Reacting to the court order at the end of proceeding yesterday, counsel to Soludo, Chief Patrick Ikweato (SAN), described it as strange and curious, alleging that it was made  by the judges themselves.

He said that he would apply for a copy of the ruling to enable him to advise Soludo accordingly.

He had earlier relied on the decided case law of Nwosu Vs Nnajiuba to plead with the court not to concede to the request of the appellants, adding that it should not allow itself to be used as “engine of operation and hardship in stopping a process of democratic governance.”

Similarly, counsel to the PDP, Chief Oke, who is also the party’s National Legal Adviser, said yesterday that what the court did was simply to tie the hands of the PDP and to force the INEC to reverse an already concluded action, insisting that the party would also look at the ruling critically.

The four appellants who are contesting Soludo’s nomination are Mr. Valentine Ozigboh, Mrs. Victoria Nwankwo, Mrs. Nkoli Imo and Mr. Ferdinand Okoye.

They had approached the appellate court with a view to reversing the decision of trial Justice Danlami Senchi, who on November 15 struck out their suit challenging the legality of the process adopted by the PDP in choosing Soludo as its candidate for the said election.

They are contending that the Judge erred in law by declining jurisdiction to entertain the matter they said bothered on an alleged breach of both the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Electoral Act of 2006 and Article 17 of the PDP electoral guidelines

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self acclaimed learned idiots like soludo must learn to respect the feeling of the masses especially when it comes to leaders and the led.
why will u want to rule over people who are not happy with u? why are u forcing yourself on people? this is the no 1 reason why nigerian politicians or the ruling class have failed woefully. they force themselves on the people.
get the mandate of the people and begin to see urself as accountable to them.
the madness in pdp has remained that loyalists of obj are selected and annointed for positions forcing them to be loyal to no other person rather than the devil that selected him.
soludo shld have been a wise man to taste his popularity by going to the poll.
he is so unsure of his abilities and qualities hence he resorted to personal appointments overlooking the interests of the populace.
why will a self acclaimed saviour run to court instead of the people. democracy is power to the people and not power to obansajo and the courts.
soludo shld let the people of anambra choose their representatives.

Our courts have failed again.

If they want to get involved in the business of choosing party political candidates they should let us know so that we wont even bother with primaries.

Justice Mary Odili got it flatly wrong.

The notion that a candidate should not be the candidate anymore just because some people refuse to understand that they lost out is ridiculous.

Now folks like Chidicris want to tell us that Chris Uba's will for Anambra State is the people's will.