The supreme court has imposed N40 million fine against Mike
Ozekhome, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), for filing a suit seeking the
sack of Hope Uzodinma, governor of Imo state.
The apex court on Tuesday dismissed the application filed by
Ozekhome on behalf of Emeka Ihedioha, a former governor of Imo.
The court ruled that the application was “frivolous and
highly vexatious”.
The application was raised from the outcome of the governorship election in Imo state.
BACKGROUND
Ihedioha, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
polled 273,404 votes to win the 2019 governorship election.
However, on January 14, 2020, the apex court voided
Ihedioha’s election and declared Uzodinma, who came fourth in the election, as
the state’s duly elected governor.
Consequently, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA),
whose candidate came third in the election, filed an application contending
that Uzodinma’s candidacy should have been nullified since the All Progressives
Congress (APC) had given tickets to the governor and Uche Nwosu, who left the
party to join Action Alliance (AA).
Nwosu is the son-in-law of Rochas Okorocha, who was at the
time the governor of Imo.
Ihedioha then applied to be joined as an interested party in
the suit.
Ihedioha had premised his application on the ground that the
APC did not validly nominate Uzodinma to contest the 2019 election since
tickets were given to two different candidates.
The PDP and Ihedioha’s application further sought to
invalidate the years that Uzodinma spent in office as the governor of Imo.
On Tuesday, the supreme court ruled that it had no
jurisdiction to entertain the application filed by Ihedioha.
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He will not pay the fines ,some senior lawyers has been fined before now and they did not pay. Prisons is meant for less privilledge people in Nigeria. Why will a snr lawyers challenging 2019 case that has been decided by the Supreme court
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