A federal high court sitting in Awka, the Anambra capital,
has affirmed Charles Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN), as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) ahead of
the governorship election in the state.
Soludo who belongs to the Victor Oye-led faction of APGA had
secured 740 votes to defeat Ezenwankwo Christopher who polled 41 votes, while
ThankGod Ibe had four votes, and Okolo Chibuzor got seven votes.
But in the list published on July 16, the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) picked Michael Umeoji over Soludo as the
standard-bearer for APGA.
INEC said it based its decision on a court orders.
Festus Okoye, INEC’s commissioner for information and voter
education, also told TheCable that Musa Ubale, judge of a high court in Jigawa
state, had passed judgment in suit JDU/022/21, upholding the suspension of
Victor Oye and affirming Jude Okeke as the party’s national chairman on June
30, 2021.
Okoye also cited another court order in suit number
FCT/DW/CV/133/21 in which Bello Kawu, a judge at the federal capital territory
(FCT) high court in Kubwa, on June 28, ordered INEC to monitor the primary
election of the Jude Okeke faction and comply with the result.
Umeoji won the primaries in Okeke’s faction.
But delivering judgment on Monday, Chukwudi Okaa, presiding
judge, said the other parties in the suit, comprising Jude Okeke, Edozie Njoku,
and Chukwuma Umeoji, were “meddlesome interlopers”.
The judge, therefore, affirmed Oye as the national chairman
of the party, and ordered INEC to recognise Soludo as the APGA governorship
candidate for Anambra.
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