In Imo, the court on January 14, 2020 sacked PDP’s Emeka Ihedioha who had only spent seven months in Douglas House as governor, and enthroned Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress.
First it was Imo State, then Bayelsa, where the Supreme Court saw things differently from the Independent National Electoral Commission , Nigeria’s electoral umpire. Most of the stakeholders in the Peoples Democratic Party strongholds were enraged by the apex court’s verdict.
Thirty days later, precisely February 13, the apex court struck again, this time in Bayelsa State, aborting the well-rehearsed swearing-in of APC’s David Lyon because his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eriemienyo, allegedly forged a certificate to stand for the election. Later, positing that Uzodinma, the incumbent governor, fraudulently misled the court to pronounce him as winner of the election, Ihedioha filed for review of the Supreme Court judgement that ousted him, adding that the judgement should be nullified.
Spokesperson of the royal fathers, Eze Akujobi Osuagwu of Awaka Autonomous Community, told newsmen in his palace that the controversy generated by Ihedioha’s case at the Supreme Court was dragging the state backward.
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