How Onuigbo, Electoral Act 2022 survived legal ambush | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⬇️
Shortly after the straw poll for Abia Central Senatorial District was concluded, some APC chieftains had rallied round Chief Emeka Atuma, who was the first runner-up in the APC governorship contest, to begin a judicial challenge of Onuigbo’s emergence from the May 28/29, 2022 Senatorial primary.
That ruling was, however, quashed by the Court of Appeal, which ordered INEC to list Hon. Samuel Onuigbo as the APC candidate for Abia Central Senatorial District. The Appeal Court further ordered as follows: “That the unilateral substitution of the appellant’s name as the validly elected candidate for that of 3rd respondent, who never participated in the primary election of the 1st respondent for Abia Central Senatorial District is hereby declared null and void.
“That the 2nd respondent is hereby ordered to publish the names of the appellant, Hon. Samuel Ifeanyi Onuigbo, as the winner and the valid candidate of the 1st respondent for the Abia Central Senatorial District primary election and the 2023 general elections.” Yet, in the judgment delivered, yesterday, by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the apex court dismissed the appeal filed by Atuma and upheld the judgment of Court of Appeal, Owerri, which affirmed the candidacy of Onuigbo as the duly nominated APC candidate for Abia Senatorial District.
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