By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau
Nigeria’s highest court, the Supreme Court, Thursday, dismissed an appeal brought before it by one Basil Maduka against the Labour Party over the rightful candidate of the party in the Imo state governorship election.
The Supreme Court’s verdict was contained in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Comrade Obiora Ifoh made available to journalists in Abuja.
According to the statement a panel of five Justices led by Iyang Okoro also cautioned the Appellant for abusing court processes and wasting the time of the courts, all through from the lower courts.
It stresses that two other respondents in the matter were the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Lamidi Apapa led candidate, Joseph Ukaegbu, alias Ikenga, whose request to seek for a consequential order was also rejected by the Supreme Court.
“With this judgement by the highest court in Nigeria, the Lamidi Apapa’s plot to hijack the affairs of the Labour Party including the powers to nominate candidates has finally come to an end” it adds.
According to the statement, counsel to the Labour Party, Okwudili Anozie, says the antics of Basil Maduka and his accomplice Joseph Ukaegbu, alias Ikenga, has also been put to an end.
“Today was a culmination of their deceit and lies to Imolites spanning from their misrepresentation of the true position of the judgments of the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal”. READ ALSO:
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“The Supreme Court didn’t entertain Ukaegbu’s counsel’s ignorant attempt to seek for a consequential order, which even a first year student of law knows cannot be sought by a Respondent especially in this case where the appeal was dismissed”.
“Indeed, today has been a day of reckoning for evil doers whose sole plan was to stop the aspiration of Imolites in their determination to Take Imo Back through Senator Athan Nneji Achonu”.
