Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba of APC losses at tribunal
Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba of the All Progressives Congress has lost at the election tribunal in Calabar, Cross River State.
Delivering judgment on behalf of other three-man Tribunal on Wednesday, Justice Vincent Agbata, noted that petitioner’s argument that he was unlawfully excluded by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC from due participation in the election of 23rd February failed because INEC acted within the ambit of the rule of law in obeying the order of a Federal High court judgement in delisting the name of the petitioner as candidate of the APC.
“Even if the petitioner, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba had scored the highest votes during that election the tribunal would still not declare him the winner because of the enumerated findings and submissions. The petition was bound to fail from the onset More so, “The Tribunal viewed the petition as situated under the jurisdiction of pre-election matter being that the exclusion act by INEC, took place before the election”.
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