August 04, (THEWILL) –Â The Court of Appeal, Awka Division, Anambra State, has dismissed a suit challenging the judgement of the State High Court recognising Professor Chukwuma Soludo as the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state.
The High Court in Awka, presided by Justice Charles Okaa, had earlier ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enlist Soludo’s name as the APGA Governorship Candidate.
A factional Governorship Candidate of the party, Chief Edozie Njoku, along with one Okoro Benedict, thereafter approached the appellate court to challenge the order.
The Plaintiffs had sought from the appellate court presided by Justice Nwosu-Iheme three reliefs against the judgement of Justice Okaa, which had affirmed Soludo as the authentic candidate of APGA in the state governorship election.
They had sought the order of the appellate court to stay “execution of Justice Okaa’s court judgement; to set aside court rules and grant the appellants (Njoku and Okoro) permission to compile and transmit the judgement of Justice Okaa to the Court of Appeal,” and to make an order granting their application an accelerated hearing.
But Justice Nwosu-Iheme in her ruling in the consolidated motions last Monday, dismissed the applications as incompetent, and awarded the sum of N200,000 and N250,000 respectively against the applicants who listed Hon Wilson Onyekwelu, APGA, and others as respondents.
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