A Federal High Court in Abuja, has suspended further proceedings on the suit filed against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by the Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha.


The court suspended proceedings of the suit in wait the outcome of an appeal that was filed by the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in the election, Chief Osita Izunaso.

Justice Okon Abang who adjourned further proceedings in the matter before him on Thursday said he received affidavit of fact dated May 20, which Izunaso who is the 3rd Defendant in the matter, failed to notify the court of the pendency of his appeal.


Recall that Izunaso had gone before the appellate court to challenge the decision of the high court to assume jurisdiction over the case Okorocha brought before it.

Izunaso, in his six grounds of appeal, argued that the High Court was wrong when it exercised jurisdiction to join the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a defendant in the suit.

Izunaso contended that the court ought to have firstly determined whether or not it had any jurisdiction to entertain Okorocha’s case, before it proceeded to join other interested parties to the suit.


Izunaso further argued that Justice Abang erred in law and misapplied.... READ MORE: https://ugobestiky.com/court-suspends-proceedings-of-okorochas-case/

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