The Supreme Court has, on Tuesday, voided the participation of Senator Andy Emmanuel Uba in the last governorship election in Anambra State as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The apex court ruled that APC had no candidate at the Anambra governorship while delivering judgement on the appeal filed by Senator Andy Uba against the judgement of both the federal high court and the Appeal court Abuja.
Dr George Moughalu had approached the high court Abuja with a suit challenging the purported declaration of Senator Andy Uba as the winner of June 26 APC primary election which never held.
The decision of the high court was upheld by the Appeal court and today the Supreme court placed a seal on it that APC had no primaries on June 26, 2021 and had no candidate for November 6, 2021 Anambra state governorship election.
A five-member panel of the court held in its judgment that the APC breached its guidelines for the conduct of primaries and thus, failed to conduct valid primary from which Uba emerged as the party’s candidate in the Anambra governorship election.
The Supreme Court affirmed the February 23, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the December 20,2021 judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
The apex court proceeded to dismiss the appeals filed by Andy Uba and the APC – marked: SC/CV/240/2022 and SC/CV/241/2022.
In the December 20, 2021 judgment, Justice Ekwo held among others that Uba was never a candidate in the election held on November 6, 2021 having emerged from an illegally conducted primary election held by the APC.
Justice Ekwo held that the plaintiff, in the case marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/648/201, George Moghalu (an APC aspirant for the election) succeeded in proving that the APC did not conduct a valid primary election from which Uba claimed to have emerged as the party’s candidate.
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