I was not sacked by S’Court, Oduah says

A senator representing Anambra State and former Minister of Aviation, Mrs Stella Oduah, has described reports that a Supreme Court judgment sacked herself and her colleague from the Upper federal legislative chamber as untrue.

According to her, the report “In all its entirety, it is false.”

She continued, “I have gone through the court judgment and the judge clearly did not give any judgement to that effect.

“Indeed, what the judgment and the case is all about is state exco and as we all know, state exco do not do election, neither do they submit list.

“So the issue of emergence of candidate, and the issue of candidates that won election was not the issue of this particular case.

“I was shocked because I knew we went through the right process and its only national executive that submits list to INEC. So the judgment was not against us the candidates of PDP.”

Oduah while speaking to Channels Television said that there is a “sister case” for which the Supreme Court has given a similar judgment but they were not related.

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“The Judge was very clear on its judgment and it clearly says it’s not about who emerges or the election but about the legality of the excos,” she said.

The Supreme Court had declared that the list of candidates submitted by the Ken Emekayi-faction was illegal. The list was made up of the names of Stella Oduah, Andy Ubah and Uche Ekwunife.

The Anambra State PDP Chairman, Mr Oguebego, had sued on behalf of themselves and others, for the apex court to determine who were the legal and validly nominated candidates of the party, to stand in the National Assembly elections in the state.

Going by the ruling, the list of nominated party candidates in the last election from the Oguebego-led executive of the Anambra PDP is the only one to be recognised by the INEC.

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