A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra on Thursday, nullified the election of Mr Emeka Ibe as the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Chief Uzochukwu Onyekwere, a member of the APC in Anambra and chairmanship aspirant, had gone to court to contest the May 19 state elective congress that brought in Ibe, over unlawful exclusion.
Defendants in the suit were Okey Ezea, Rep. Kingsley Chinda, Chairman of the APC Congress Committee in Anambra, Ibe, the acclaimed winner and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Onyekwere prayed the court that he was a bona fide member of APC and was entitled to aspire for the office of the party’s chairman in Anambra, NAN reports.
He sought declaration that the exercise was not conducted in accordance with the provisions of Section 223 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended and Article 20 of the APC constitution 2017 as amended.
He said the intendment of those provisions was that all elections would be through democratic voting and that the exercise fell short of it.
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