The Court of Appeal has declared Francis Ottah Agbo as the validly nominated Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Federal
Justice B. I. Gafai of the Abuja division delivered the unanimous decision of a three-member panel.
Delivering judgement on Thursday, the court said she was still a Federal Inland Revenue Services staff at the time of the election. Justice Gafai noted that Ogwuche should have resigned her employment from the FIRS before contesting, The judge cited Section 66 of the 1999 Constitution in declaring Ogwuche’s election as unlawful and invalid.
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