The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has sacked the Senate’s Minority Whip, Senator Darlington Nwokocha.
Nwokocha, represents Abia Central in the red chamber of the National Assembly on the platform of the Labour Party (LP),
In this turn of events, the Appeal Court declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Col Austin Akobundu (retd), as the duly elected senator in the February 25 polls.
The court held in its ruling that the National Assembly election petition tribunal erred by it’s earlier upold of Nwokocha’s victory and thereby upturned it’s ruling in favour of the PDP candidate.
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Also, the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has dismissed the appeal brought by Anthony Agbazuere, a candidate of PDP, against LP’s House of Representatives member, Ginger Onwusibe.
The court upheld Onwusibe’s victory in the February 25 National Assembly poll and also agreed with the ruling of the tribunal, which had said that Agbazuere’s case lacked merit.
It, therefore, affirmed Onwusibe’s victory as the duly elected member for the Isiala Ngwa North/Isiala Ngwa South federal constituency.
