An appeal by Senator Bassey Albert’s acolytes led by Rt. Hon. Friday Iwok against the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Akwa Ibom State PDP and 329 Adhoc delegates elected during the April 30th 2022 Ward Congress in the State, has been dismissed and struck out by the Appeal Court in Abuja.

Friday Iwok and his friends who are all in the campaign team of Bassey Albert in the Young Progressives Congress, surprisingly went to ask the Appeal court to nullify the nomination of Pastor Umo Eno and every other PDP Candidate in Akwa Ibom State.

The case had earlier been dismissed by the Federal High Court in Abuja as lacking in merit and the appellants appealed to the appellate court to upturn the Justice Obiora Egwatu judgement.

The Appeal court however dismissed the appeal in its entirety as a waste of judicial time and struck it out.



Arguing their case, Ahmed Raji, had urged the court to declare the outcome of the ward congresses a nullity.

He also sought among other things, for the cancellation of the entire primaries conducted by the PDP as well as an order barring INEC from accepting the lists of candidates produced by PDP from its the primaries.