The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a certificate of return to Ifeanyi Ararume in considering the December 5, 2020 result of Imo North Senatorial bye-election, and for having been declared as the valid candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Justice Taiwo Taiwo who delivered the judgment ordered INEC to issue the certificate of return within 72 hours.
He said, with regard to the Appeal Court judgment in Abuja, the third defendant (Chukwuma Ibezim) remained disqualified.
The Judge declared in a judgment that Senator Ararume remains the authentic candidate of the APC and should be declared the winner of the election.
Recall that Justice Taiwo earlier dismissed the Preliminary Objection challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain Senator Ararume’s suit filed by the APC and Chukwuma Ibezim.
Justice Taiwo, who described the application as “an attempt to arrest the judgment,” dismissed it for lacking in merit.
Ararume had, through his counsel told Justice Taiwo Taiwo to invoke the judgments of a Federal High Court and that of an Appeal Court to disqualify Ibezim and declare him as the rightful candidate for APC.
Our correspondent gathered that prior to the bye-election which was held on December 5, 2020, Ibezim and Araraume had fielded themselves as APC candidates.
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