BREAKING: Appeal Court Gives Verdict on Sacking of Governor Otti of Abia
- Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has secured victory at the court of appeal in Kano over the judgment of the federal high court that sacked him and other elected Labour Party candidates
- The appellate court faulted the hasty judgment of the trial court, adding that it failed to join the parties involved in the case before giving its verdict
- One Ibrahim Haruna Ibrahim, in a suit number FHC/KN/CS/107/2023, asked the high court to sack all the Labour Party candidates elected in the 2023 election
Kano, Kano - Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has secured another victory at the court of appeal sitting in Kano, barely two weeks after the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in his state upheld his election in the March 18 governorship poll.
In its ruling on Friday, October 20, the appeal court dismissed the verdict delivered by the Federal High Court sitting in Kano. The judgment delivered on May 18 by Justice M. N. Yunusa reportedly sacked the Abia governor, Daily Independent reported.
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On Friday, the appellate court faulted the trial court's hasty hearing and determination of the suit. It ruled that the federal high court gave its verdict without joining the necessary parties who were the real targets of the claim in the case.
Why appeal court dismissed ruling of federal high court sacking Alex Otti, other LP candidates
The court of appeal then awarded the sum of one million naira (N1,000,000) against the plaintiff.
One Ibrahim Haruna Ibrahim had filed the suit before the federal high court in suit number FHC/KN/CS/107/2023, praying that the court should disqualify all the elected candidates of the Labour Party in the 2023 election.
Governor Otti is the only Labour Party candidate who won his election in the March 18 governorship election in Abia State.
He recently defeated his opponents in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the state election tribunal in Umuahia, the state capital.
"No tribunal can unseat the following State governors": Primate Ayodele foresees
Legit.ng earlier reported that Primate Elijah Ayodele of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church has disclosed that some governors cannot be removed by the tribunals sitting in their states.
The cleric, in a tweet on Monday, listed four governors on the platform of the PDP, APC and the Labour Party.
Recall that the tribunals sitting in 25 of the 28 states where the March 18 governorship election was held have reserved their judgment and may deliver their verdict before the end of September.
Source: Legit.ng
