A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has barred Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting or listing the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Ehime/Mbano/Ihitte Uboma Federal Constituency (Okigwe South) in Imo State,in the rescheduled February 23, National Assembly election.

The development sealed the hope of the APC of fielding any candidate for Okigwe South as the spate of losses suffered by the party continues unabated. This followed similar losses in Zamfara and Rivers states.

Justice Bello Kawu dashed the hope of the party when he declared as unconstitutional, illegal, null and void the primary election conducted for the federal constituency.

A House of Representatives aspirant, Mrs. Uzoma Chioma Ann, had filed a suit against the APC and two others, at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, in the Bwari Judicial Division holden at Kubwa, Abuja, before Justice Kawu, seeking the nullification of the nomination of Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, as its candidate for the Okigwe South Federal Constituency, in Saturday’s elections. She claimed Nwajiuba’s emergence violated the party’s rules and guidelines.

Also joined as defendants in the suit were the APC and the INEC, as first and third defendants, respectively.

In his ruling, Justice Kawu cited various authorities and concluded that Nwajiuba’s nomination was “inappropriate, unlawful, null and void for failure to comply with the first defendants guideline for nomination of candidate.”

He also barred INEC “from further recognising, accepting or listing the second defendant’s name as the candidate of the first defendant in the 2019 ballot paper for Okigwe South House of Representatives election because the first defendant (APC) did not conduct primary for the office.”

Justice Kawu further held that having considered the case of the plaintiff and all authorities cited by the learned counsel, he was of the strong view that the question that calls for determination by the court was whether proper procedure was followed for selection or nomination of the second defendant as a candidate of the first defendant for Okigwe South Federal Constituency.

The court, which cited relevant sections of the Electoral Act 2010(as amended) and the APC constitution, said notwithstanding the provision of the Act or rules of political party, “an aspirant who complains that any of the provisions of the Act and the guideline of a political party has not been complied with in the selection or nomination of a political party for election, may apply to the Federal High Court as or the High Court of a state for redress.”

However, Nwajiuba, a lawyer and former lawmaker, had sensed and cited that the legal land mines had smartly left the party to pick the ticket of the Accord Party on which he is presently running, while the incumbent representative of Okigwe South, Chike Okafor, took up the ticket after another controversial primaries.


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/court-bars-inec-from-accepting-apc-candidate-for-okigwe-south/

Waste of time,

Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba will emerge victorious as a member representing Okigwe South Federal Constituency through Accord Party. For now, APC has no legal candidate for February 23rd election.

Court is only doing them well. Helping them not to spend Nigeria's money they call their own. Abia is PDP,
PDP is Abia.

APC is a total failure!

kcmichael:
Waste of time,

it is not


That's the beginning of the end of apc

More is coming after election

God is tormenting our tormentors. By this time next week, buhari will be known and addressed as an outgoing president.

Imo will be so totally cleansed of APC that no politician will be considered serious once he comes out with the Party.

APC were being rejected like a lepers in the whole world.

Another bonus for pdp

Atikulation all the way

Nwajiuba doing Chike strong thing

He will appeal so he his still much in the race

kingi777:
Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba will emerge victorious as a member representing Okigwe South Federal Constituency through Accord Party. For now, APC has no legal candidate for February 23rd election.

It will be a shame if Okigwe south electorates vote for this turncoat named Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba. This is how Nigeria slips into abyss of idiocy. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba knew he and APC had fouled up the process and he cunningly decamped to another party. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba should be deliberately stoned.

APC doesn't offer anything that is real or genuine. they are as fake as their party and promises. please let's vote them out come Feb 23 and march 9 2019

See prove bellow

N

Another candidate disqualified
People like senatordave1 will again invade this thread and blame PDP or even jubilate and taunt opposition when court asks that its candidate be changed just like in cross rivers as reported this morning.

Who celebrates division in his house? except APC.
Does division make you stronger?

Walhalla for APC these days.

What if the election had taken place?

R

APC: House of commotion. We have never had it this bad, entrusting our governance to a set of incompetent people who can not govern themselves.
No wonder thing are so bad in our nation.
Let us chase the agents of devil with our PVC.

Zangazanga:
Court is only doing them well. Helping them not to spend Nigeria's money they call their own. Abia is PDP,
PDP is Abia.

God ll disappoint PDP in abia state. Pdp has failed abians

What's really wrong with this party called APC?
How come they are rejected in many places??