The Supreme Court on Tuesday
dismissed the two suits filed by lawyer Ned Nwoko, challenging the election of
Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi as the PDP candidate representing Delta North district.
Nwoko challenged the validity of
the 2 Oct. 2, 2018 primary of the party held in Delta, which proclaimed Nwaoboshi
as the PDP candidate.
The five-man panel of justices
led by Justice Inyang Okoro, dismissed the suit for lack of jurisdiction.
Nwoko had prayed the apex court
to upturn the Court of Appeal judgment which declared Nwaoboshi as the duly
elected senator for the Delta North Senatorial District.
INEC thereafter issued Nwaoboshi
a Certificate of Return.
In March, the Federal High Court
Abuja declared Ned Nwoko as the authentic winner of the primaries, agreeing
with Nwoko that he was substituted by the PDP.
The judgment will be a sop of
sort for Nwaoboshi who is currently embroiled in another problem with the
Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property.
Last weekend, the Panel sealed
off suspicious assets and property belonging to Nwaoboshi in Warri, Asaba in
Delta State, and Lagos State. Twenty-two bank accounts in Nwaoboshi’s name were
also frozen.
The Presidential Panel carried
out the action on the premise of last week’s ruling of a Federal High Court
sitting in Abuja which ordered an interim forfeiture of property belonging to
Nwaoboshi, who represents Delta North senatorial district.
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