Labour Party (LP) senatorial candidate for Abia North in the 2023 election, Nnamdi Iroh-Oji, has told the Court of Appeal, Lagos that the former Abia State
governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, admitted that he had been convicted and demanded that his election should be annulled.The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced Kalu as scoring 30,805 votes to Iroh-Oji’s 25,540 votes in the February 25 election.
Leading his team of lawyers, Bert C. Iqwilo , he argued before the Court of Appeal in Lagos that “Kalu admitted before the court that he should not be retried for case of fraud” he was being prosecuted for by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission . The Supreme Court’s judgement was delivered based on an appeal by Kalu’s co-defendant, Ude Udeogu, leading to a retrial order at the Federal High Court by the apex court.
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