Court of Appeal Affirms Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (NatashaAkpoti) As PDP Kogi Central Senatorial Candidate | Sahara Reporters
November 3, 2022In May, Akpoti won the PDP primary election for the 2023 Kogi Central Senatorial District, to go against the ruling APC’s Abubakar Ohere, among others.
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lokoja had on September 2, dismissed a suit challenging the nomination of the Abuja-based lawyer, Akpoti-Uduaghan as the Senatorial candidate of the PDP for Kogi Central. He claimed among others, that the May 25 primary election which produced Akpoti-Uduaghan was flawed and not validly conducted as required by law.
Besides the incompetence of the originating summons, Akpoti-Uduaghan had in her counter-affidavit averred that the primary election conducted on 25th May 2022 was monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission and that she validly won, attaching the result, delegates list and INEC report.
However, ruling on the appeal on Thursday, the Court of Appeal upheld the arguement of Natasha's Counsel Usman, that the Deponents of the affidavits in support of the originating summons who were not delegates cannot challenge the delegate election.
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