Okolie refuted the court's judgement that he contested the election while in office as against the constitution, stressing that he resigned
Okolie expressed dissatisfaction with the judgement and noted that time was getting closer when Nigerians would resort to native shrines to seek justice because people no longer believed in the judiciary.
“I have a lot of friends in PDP; my aim of joining politics is not to become a member of PDP but to help my community.Meanwhile, the Labour Party has expressed shock over the judgement by the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State, where it sacked the Labour Party’s Ngozi Okolie.
Ifoh added that it was only a political party that could determine who its members were and who their standard bearer was in an election.
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