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The Appeal Court sitting in Lagos has upheld the decision of the Imo State National Assembly election tribunal which declared Hon. Deacon Chike Okafor winner.

The three man panel made up of Justice B.A Georgewill, Justice B.B . Aliyu and Justice J.Folashade-Ojo, held that the tribunal was right in its judgement, thus the appeal lacked merit.

Recall that the Imo State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, in Petition No EPT/IM/HR/13/2024 has nullified the return of the PDP candidate, Hon Jonas Okeke as the House of Representatives member for Ehime Mbano/Ihitte Uboma, Obowo Federal Constituency of Imo State.

In a unanimous decision the three-man panel comprising Justice Anthony Olotu Akpovi (Chairman), Justice Usman A.S Kudu, and Justice Ibrahim Mohammed declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress Party, APC Hon Deacon Chike Okafor, as the duly elected candidate of the election conducted on 25th February, 2023.

Hon Chike Okafor, an Economist, investment banker, former Commissioner for Finance, Imo State and a two-term federal lawmaker, who served as the 8th Assembly Chairman, Committee on Healthcare Services, Chairman Adhoc Committee on Non Oil Revenue and Remittances, and a very key Member of the Committees of Appropriation, Finance, Banking and Currency, among others in the 9th Assembly challenged the declaration of Jonas Okeke by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the winner of the election on the grounds that the respondent was not duly sponsored and qualified to contest the election under the People Democratic Party, PDP.

In its judgment on the petition, the tribunal agreed with the petitioner that the candidate of the PDP was not qualified to contest the election, and subsequently ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Jonas Okeke, and issue same to Okafor.
Read more: https://frontlinenews.com.ng/court-of-appeal-declares-chike-okafor-winner-sacks-pdp-rep-member/

A winner is a winner,try to do what the people want.
Congratulations to you.

Democracy is not in danger now bcs EluP has been declared winner. 🤣😀


Let's here from IPOBidients 🤣😀😀🤣

Ola9ja23:
Democracy now is not in danger now bcs EluP has been declared winner.


Let's here from IPOBidients 🤣😀😀🤣

Quite obvious that you did not read the article, if indeed you had read it, you would have seen that The APC candidate was the one declared the winner.

In a unanimous decision the three-man panel comprising Justice Anthony Olotu Akpovi (Chairman), Justice Usman A.S Kudu, and Justice Ibrahim Mohammed declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress Party, APC Hon Deacon Chike Okafor, as the duly elected candidate of the election conducted on 25th February, 2023.

In its judgment on the petition, the tribunal agreed with the petitioner that the candidate of the PDP was not qualified to contest the election, and subsequently ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Jonas Okeke, and issue same to Okafor.

Nice one

[quote author=Ola9ja23 post=126804446]Democracy is not in danger now bcs EluP has been declared winner.

Burob:
Quite obvious that you did not read the article, if indeed you had read it, you would have seen that The APC candidate was the one declared the winner.

In a unanimous decision the three-man panel comprising Justice Anthony Olotu Akpovi (Chairman), Justice Usman A.S Kudu, and Justice Ibrahim Mohammed declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress Party, APC Hon Deacon Chike Okafor, as the duly elected candidate of the election conducted on 25th February, 2023.

In its judgment on the petition, the tribunal agreed with the petitioner that the candidate of the PDP was not qualified to contest the election, and subsequently ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Jonas Okeke, and issue same to Okafor.

You de mind am?
Illiteracy is a bad thing
Perhaps he copied from somewhere

This is nice.this man is very popular in okigwe south.he lost because he aligned with the rochas faction alongside pascal obi and uju kingsley.he has retraced his steps and aligned with hope faction.it simply means that ikenga ugochinyere will lose his appeal.

Good.

Ola9ja23:
Democracy is not in danger now bcs EluP has been declared winner. 🤣😀


Let's here from IPOBidients 🤣😀😀🤣

always rushing to write rubbish..you can't read an article that is not upto one page but you want to engage people in a political discourse...

Rochas' guy

So there's court in maraba too

Burob:
Quite obvious that you did not read the article, if indeed you had read it, you would have seen that The APC candidate was the one declared the winner.

In a unanimous decision the three-man panel comprising Justice Anthony Olotu Akpovi (Chairman), Justice Usman A.S Kudu, and Justice Ibrahim Mohammed declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress Party, APC Hon Deacon Chike Okafor, as the duly elected candidate of the election conducted on 25th February, 2023.

In its judgment on the petition, the tribunal agreed with the petitioner that the candidate of the PDP was not qualified to contest the election, and subsequently ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Jonas Okeke, and issue same to Okafor.

Don’t mind the mumu.

Congratulations to Chike Okafor. I hope he will join other progressive lawmakers in assisting Mr. President to achieve his renewed hope agenda.