The judgement of the Supreme Court will be the final decider of who holds the APC’s ticket for the Akwa-Ibom North-West senatorial election billed to hold on 25 February between Godswill Akpabio and Udom Ekpoudom.
The APC is challenging the decision of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which sacked Godswill Akpabio as its candidate for the senatorial seat election holding on 25 February.In Mr Akpabio’s place, the appellate court ordered INEC to recognise Udom Ekpoudom, a retired deputy inspector general of police, as the authentic candidate of the party.
But Mr Ekpoudom’s lawyer, Solomon Umoh , prayed to the Supreme Court to dismiss the appeal and uphold his client’s candidacy. Mr Akpabio had lost out in the APC presidential primary in Abuja. But APC had nominated him as its candidate for the senatorial election despite that he did not participate in the party’s senatorial primary election.
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