A former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that its January 14 judgment that sacked him and declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress the duly elected governor of the state was obtained by fraud or deceit.

He added that the apex court was misled to give the judgment.

Describing the judgment as a nullity, he asked the apex court to set it aside.

Ihedioha’s position was contained in an application which he filed before the apex court on Wednesday.

The application filed by Kanu Agabi (SAN) on behalf of Ihedioha and the Peoples Democratic Party, was brought in pursuant of Section 6 (6) of the 1999 Constitution as amended and Section 22 of the Supreme Court Act 2004.

The application was supported with an affidavit sworn to by a lawyer, Uchenna Njoku.

A seven-man panel of the apex court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, had on January 14 unanimously declared Uzodinma of the APC winner of the March 9, 2019 governorship election and the validly elected governor of the state.

Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, who read the lead judgment, ordered that the certificate of return issued to Ihedioha be immediately withdrawn. She directed that a fresh certificate of return should be issued to Uzodinma.

In alleging fraud, however, Ihedioha and the PDP claimed that Uzodinma and his party fraudulently misled the apex court into holding that 213,495 votes were unlawfully excluded from the votes they scored in the governorship election held on March 9, 2019.

They said Uzodinma admitted under cross examination that he was the person, and not the Independent National Electoral Commission, who computed the result that gave him the 213,495 votes alleged to have been excluded from his total votes in the election.

They added, “The fraudulent nature of the additional votes was demonstrated by the fact that the total votes cast as shown in the first appellant/respondent’s computation was more than the total number of voters accredited for the election and in some polling units more than the total number of registered voters.

“The fraud was also demonstrated by the fact that the result computed by the first appellant/respondent showed only the votes of the first applicant and the first appellant/respondent without specifying the votes scored by the other 68 candidates who participated in the election.”

They further argued that the judgment sought to be set aside was a nullity in that it was given per incuriam.

They said by Exhibit A1, the total number of voters accredited for the election was 823, 743 while the total valid votes cast was 731, 485.

The inclusion of 213, 695 votes for the first appellant/respondent, they argued, made the total number of votes cast at the election to be more than the total number of votes accredited for the election.

The applicants also, among other grounds, argued that the judgment of the Court of Appeal dismissing Uzodinma’s petition as incompetent continues to subsist as the appeal against that decision was not considered by the apex court.

Justice Kekere-Ekun had ruled that with the addition of the excluded votes to the earlier declared final results, Uzodinma polled the highest lawful votes with the required spread of votes in the state.


https://punchng.com/uzodinma-obtained-judgment-by-fraud-ihedioha-tells-supreme-court/

Problem oo

O di egwu....

It's no longer review but now set aside

Medicine after death. What stopped you from canvassing this points at the Supreme Court when you had the chance? The record of appeal was with you all this while but you failed to look at it only to come now to use style to correct your mistake by appealing the Supreme Court judgement

Chaii I wish my uncle who is a SAN is among the lawyers that are not done with IHEDIOHA financially .

kahal29:
O di egwu....

It's no longer review but now set aside

Dead on arrival, waste of money, lawyers salivating to the Bank.

Wetin remain wey Emeka Ihedioha no go see for Supreme Court!.

Lol. Ihedioha is just trying to be politically relevant. The judgement is final. Hope odidika uzodinma, onwa , is already the governor and he shall remain in owerri till 2028.

Ihedioha, relax and let's make imo great together..

I pity Nigerians, a whole Supreme Court or should I called it scam court delivered the most ridiculous and embarrassing hatched judgement on Nigerians and some ignoramus babies are here seeing it as Ihedioha's matter,

Shame on all of u mocking ihedioha, u can't celebrate evil and still expect Buhari to perform, u guys are just educated fools.

hw time flies

This green cap mbaise man will not go and enjoy his seven months loot in peace. Anyway lawyers must chop nah. PDP and mumu are 5&6.

ezegold4we:
I pity Nigerians, a whole Supreme Court or should I called it scam court delivered the most ridiculous and embarrassing hatched judgement on Nigerians and some ignoramus babies are here seeing it as Ihedioha's matter,

Shame on all of u mocking ihedioha, u can't celebrate evil and still expect Buhari to perform, u guys are just educated fools.

I pity you too

I told u Ihedioha is an arrogant idiot. He feels being governor is his birthright

hisexcellency34:
I told u Ihedioha is an arrogant idiot. He feels being governor is his birthright

Am telling you.