Politics
Appeal Courts sack PDP’s Sen Sekibo, 3 others
It was a bad day for a number of federal lawmakers yesterday, all of them of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the elections that brought them to power were all nullified, and INEC ordered to conduct fresh elections to fill the positions.
Appeal Courts sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital and Abuja, have voided the Certificates of Return given to senators Mao Ohuabunwa (Abia North Senatorial District) and George Thompsom Sekibo (Rivers East Senatorial District).
The elections of Kingsley Ogundu Chindah and Blessing Nsiegbe, representing Obio/Akpo and Port-Harcourt II at the House of Representatives were also nullified, and INEC ordered to conduct bye elections.
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APC’s Anthony Chinedu Okocha and Collins Owhondah had appealed the lower tribunals’ ruling in their petition against the declaration of Chindah and Nsiegbe as winners of the House of Representatives election on March 28.
The three man Appeal Court panel had earlier berated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for what it said was “its public display of partisanship and failure to remain neutral as an independent electoral umpire and wondered why the commission should cry more than the bereaved in the suit.”
Just recently, Mrs Uche Ekwunife, a PDP senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District was also sacked by a Federal Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu state.
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