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Court reserves judgment in appeal against Ihedioha’s election

by The Eagle Online
November 11, 2019
in Featured, Politics
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday reserved judgment in three separate appeals challenging the victory of Emeka Ihedioha in the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Imo State.
The five-member panel, presided over by Justice Oyebisi Omoleye, announced that judgment in the three appeals would be delivered on a date to be communicated to parties, after parties in the various appeals adopted their written addresses as brief of argument in the appeals.
The appeals were filed against the judgment of the Imo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which upheld the election of Ihedioha.
It includes that of the All Progressive Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume; Action Alliance and its governorship candidate, Uche Nwosu; and that of the All Progressives Congress and its governorship candidate, Senator Hope Uzodinma.
The appellants are asking the appellate court to void the election of Ihedioha on grounds that he did not obtain the constitutional one-quarter of the votes in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state in line with Section 179 of the Constitution.
In the various submissions by their counsel, the appellants are asking the court to set aside the decision of the tribunal and declare them winner of the March 9 governorship election.
Also in the alternative order the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh election into the office of Governor of Imo State.
The three-member panel of the tribunal had in an unanimous decision delivered on September 21, held that Ihedioha was lawfully declared winner of the governorship election by INEC.
The panel, chaired by Justice Malami Dongondaji, had in the judgment dismissed Ararume’s, Nwosu’s and Uzodinma’s petitions for lacking in merit on the grounds that they failed to prove allegations made in their petitions.
They claimed that Ihedioha did not obtain the constitutional one-quarter of the votes in at least two-thirds of the 27 local government areas of the state in line with the provisions of the law.
The petitioners also alleged substantially of non compliance with the Electoral Act and Guidelines, including other irregularities.
The tribunal in its judgment held that the case of the petitioners was unmeritorious because they failed to call relevant witnesses and that evidence of witnesses called were based on hearsay.
The tribunal in addition rejected documents tendered by the petitioners in support of their claims on the grounds that those who led evidence in the documents were not the makers of the documents.
In his appeal, Ararume urged the appellate court to upturn the decision of the tribunal on the grounds that the lower court erred in law when it arrived at the decision that his case and that of his party lacked merit and accordingly dismissed it.
The appeal, which was predicated on 22 grounds, was argued by his lead lawyer, Awa Kalu (SAN), while that of Nwosu and AA was argued by Niyi Akintola (SAN), and that of Uzodinma and APC was argued by Damian Dodo (SAN).
They all urged the panel to allow the appeal and grant all the reliefs sought by the appellants.
However, lead counsel to Ihedioha and the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN) and K.C.O. Njemanze (SAN), urged the court to dismiss the appeals for being incompetent and lacking in merit.
The respondents submitted that the appeal of the AA and Nwosu in particular constitute a waste of the precious time of the court.
They argued that the Supreme Court in a judgment delivered on October 22 had already struck out the name of Nwosu as candidate of the AA in the March 9 governorship election in Imo State.
The respondents also claimed that the appeal of Nwosu lacked merit going by a recent judgment of the Court of Appeal, which nullified the candidacy of Nwosu in the governorship election.
Justice Omoyele after taking submissions of counsel in the matter, announced that judgment will be delivered on a date that will be communicated to parties.

Tags: Action AllianceAll Progressives CongressAll Progressives Grand AllianceEmeka IhediohaHope UzodinmaIfeanyi AraraumeUche Nwosu
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