The House of Representatives member from Ideato North/Ideato South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu has described the state governor, Hope Uzodinma as a sore loser. Ugochinyere was reacting to the Lagos Appeal Court ruling which affirmed his victory as a validly elected member of the House of Representatives.
In a unanimous judgement delivered on Wednesday, the panel headed by Justice Abubakar Babandi Gumel overruled the judgements of the tribunal, which had disqualified Ikenga and nullified his election on a pre-election matter of the primaries of the PDP, despite a plethora of authorities by the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal to the effect that Election Tribunals do not have jurisdiction over pre-election matters.
While commending the President of the Court of Appeal and the three members of the Panel, Counsel, Tochukwu Ohazuruike said, “The President of the Court of Appeal and the three Panel members deserve all the commendation for resisting the attempts of Hope Uzodimma to undermine them as he did to Justice Akpovi, who has lost all his respect for such a strange judgement he delivered after the Tribunal hearing.
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