Candidate of the PDP in the 2015 Anambra Central Senatorial election, Obiora Okonkwo has asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to set aside the reversed order of a Federal High Court which declared him authentic representative of the district.
Okonkwo in a notice of appeal asked the Court of Appeal to make an order directing INEC to immediately comply with the consent judgement of Justice Tsoho delivered on December 13, 2017.
In addition, Okonkwo asked the appellate court to adjourn indefinitely, a pre-election suit he filed in December 2014 pending when the Supreme Court “hears, and delivers judgment, on an appeal by the PDP against an earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal on the Anambra Central election rerun.”
In the appeal which was filed yesterday by his counsel, Chief Sebastine Hon (SAN), Okonkwo further contended that the trial judge, Justice John Tsoho erred in law and occasioned a miscarriage of justice in arriving at his decision.
Specifically, the appellant said his right to fair hearing was denied by Justice Tsoho when he single-handedly amended the only relief in a Motion on Notice brought by INEC seeking to “vary” the judgment of December 13, 2017.
No date has yet been fixed for the matter at the Court of Appeal.