Court declares Bassey Otu as authentic APC guber candidate in Cross River | TheCable
Ben Ayade, governor of Cross River, is backing the former senator for the position of governor in the state.
how a screening panel of the All Progressives Congress disqualified Otu from contesting in the party’s governorship primary owing to his inability to provide proof of his educational qualifications.Subsequently, Owan Enoh, a governorship aspirant, asked the court to disqualify the former senator as the APC candidate in the state on some of the aforementioned grounds.
At the court on Monday, Ijeoma Ojukwu, the judge handling the case, held that the former senator meets the basic educational requirement according to the constitution. “The plaintiff failed to provide what constituted or constitutes the false information provided by the third defendant who is the candidate of his party in his affidavit or any document submitted as contained in the constitutional requirement,” Ojukwu held.“There is nowhere in the seven-paragraph affidavit submitted by the plaintiff that the third defendant submitted any false information. The allegation of forgery was not established in any manner.
“None of the documents or certificates submitted by the third defendant gave evidence of forgery. I have carefully perused the averments and find no evidence of false information.”