A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia has reaffirmed the candidacy of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Gregory Ibe in Abia State.
Lt. Gen. Ijioma N. Ijioma Rtd who was one of the guber aspirants of APGA in the primary election had filed a suit seeking the disqualification of Prof. Ibe as the party’s flagbearer.
In the suit, Ijioma posited that Prof. Ibe who is the 2nd defendant was as at the time of the party’s primary elections, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and participated in its guber primaries and therefore was ineligible to contest under the platform to which he is now the governorship candidate.
Ijioma who is the plaintiff in the case also stated that the 1st defendant which is APGA were in connivance with the 2nd defendant to swing the primaries to the 1st defendants favour after being financially induced, adding that there were many irregularities during the election that were intentionally orchestrated by both the 1st and 2nd defendants to deprive him of mandate and prayed the court to declare him (Ijioma) as the authentic winner of the said primaries.
However in her ruling, Justice Evelyn Nwadike dismissed the suit for lacking in merits and asserted that the plaintiff failed to prove his case.
In the judgement, Justice Nwadike revealed that the plaintiff did not provide evidence to prove that the 2nd defendant was a member of the PDP member nor participated in its guber primaries as at the time the 1st defendant held its own governorship primary, and more so, as the 3rd defendant which is the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) attested that the 2nd defendant was solely a member of the 1st defendant during the said primaries.
In a later development, the Plaintiff (Ijioma) refused to accept the judgment saying that “Judgment was delivered today but justice was denied, as what happened today here was a miscarriage of justice.”
He stated that he will expose the judgment to the Court of Appeal and if need be, to the Supreme Court.
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