GOVERNOR Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom state has asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos to dismiss the appeal brought before it by Senator Bassey Albert Akpan the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party YPP, in the 2023 election.
Eno also asked the Appellate court to uphold the decision of the Governorship Elections Petitions Tribunal in Uyo which had declared him the winner of the Governorship election held on March 18 2023.
In Appeal No CA//C/EP/GOV/AKW/24/2023, filed by Senator Akpan, and his party, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Umo Eno, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the governor held that the Tribunal was right in upholding his victory in the 2023 Governorship elections after Bassey Albert failed to establish his claims of forgery and electoral malpractice.
“Chief Usoro averred that the Appellant’s submissions amount to mere sophistry and are entirely erroneous and misconceived”, adding “that a judgment in rem is a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction determining the status of a person or things distinct from the particular interest of a party to the litigation.
“Usoro argued further that, it was legally imperative that there should be an end to litigation, and as such the appellants had no reason to keep belabouring the court over a matter that had been sufficiently resolved at the highest court of the land.
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