The National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Enugu on Tuesday sacked Rep. Sunday Umeha of the Labour Party, representing Udi/Ezeagu Federal Constituency of Enugu State.
The panel, led by Justice A. M. Abubakar, declared as the winner of the poll Festus Uzor of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Abubakar, while ruling on the petition filed by Dr. Uzor, averred that Umeha did not properly resign from the PDP before picking the LP ticket.
The panel also held that even the purported resignation letter tendered by Umeha was signed by someone that was no longer a leader of the PDP.
It, thereafter, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue a fresh Certificate of Return to Uzor as the duly elected representative of the constituency.