An Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka has ordered INEC to list Senator Ugochukwu Uba as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in November
Justice Obiora Nwabunike of the State High Court 5, who gave the order in his judgment in a suit by Senator Ugochukwu Uba against the INEC, PDP and Valentine Ozigbo . He also ordered the defendants to pay Uba the sum of N10 million as expenses incurred in prosecuting the matter in the court.
The judge, however, held that the PDP faction which conducted its primary at the Paul University, Awka, on June 26, obeyed the subsisting order of an Abuja High Court presided by Justice A. O. Adeniyi. Justice Nwabunike held that though the the Nigeria constitution 1999 , Electoral Act 2020 as well as PDP constitution gave PDP National Executive Committee powers to make guidelines for the nomination of candidate of the party for an election, such power could not be exercised in defiance to a subsisting order of a court.
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