- Owerri’s appeal court has declared Frank Ibezim as the All Progressives Congress’s authentic candidate for Saturday’s Imo North senatorial by-election.
- Justice Stephen Adah said the trial Federal High Court’s finding was unassailable to warrant any Court of Appeal interference.
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the disqualification of Chuwuma Frank Ibezim as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last by-election in Imo North Senatorial District of Imo State.
EKO HOT BLOG gathered a three-person panel of the Court of Appeal, in a unanimous judgment on Saturday, upheld the December 4, 2020 judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the suit filed by Asomugha Tony Eleneke, disqualifying Ibezim for making a false claim about his age and educational credentials in the documents submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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Justice Stephen Adah, who read the judgment on Saturday, said the trial Federal High Court’s finding was unassailable to warrant any Court of Appeal interference.
He proceeded to dismiss the appeal by Ibezim, affirmed the Federal High Court’s judgment, and declined to award cost.
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