A Federal Capital Territory
(FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday, January 17, sacked Senator Ifeanyi
Ubah of the Young Progressives Party (YPP).
Senator
Ubah was
the lawmaker representing Anambra South district in the upper chamber
of the National Assembly.
Vanguard
reports that the court declined to set aside its judgement on the nullification
of the election of the candidate of Young Peoples Party (YPP), Ifeanyi Ubah,
for allegedly using a forged National Examination Council (NECO) certificate to
contest the senatorial election that held in the state on February 23, 2019.
It
would be recalled that Ubah had approached the court to set aside the judgement
which he insisted occasioned a grave miscarriage of justice against him.
He
averred that he was neither served with the court processes nor hearing notice
with respect to the suit before the court proceeded to deliver the judgement
against him.
Following
his application for stay of execution, Justice Kawu, on December 4, restrained
the Senate president from swearing-in Uzoh, pending the hearing and
determination of the motion challenging the verdict.
The
court equally ordered all the parties, including the INEC to maintain status
quo till it decides the merit in Ubah’s contention.
In
a ruling on Friday, January 17, Justice Kawu, however, held that Senator Ubah’s
application to vacate its judgement lacked merit and accordingly dismissed it.
It
equally dismissed a motion another claimant to the PDP senatorial ticket, Chief
Chris Uba, filed to be joined as an interested party in the substantive suit
marked CV/3044/2018, which was filed before the court by an electorate in the
state, Anani Chuka.
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