COURT NULLIFIES ANDY UBA’S PARTICIPATION IN ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION, ORDERS INEC TO DELETE HIS RECORD AS CANDIDATE.

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified Andy Uba’s participation in the Governorship Election held in Anambra State on November 6 this year. In a judgment on Monday, the Judge held that Uba was never a candidate in the election having emerged from an illegally conducted primary election by the All Progressives Congress, APC. Justice Ekwo added that the plaintiff, George Moghalu succeeded in proving that the APC did not conduct a valid primary election from which Uba claimed to have emerged as the party’s candidate.

The judge ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to delete Uba from its record as a candidate in the election and ordered APC to refund to Moghalu, the sum of 22.5 million naira, which is the amount he paid for expression of interest and nomination forms since the party failed to conduct a valid primary. George Moghalu, an aspirant in the APC primary election had challenged the process and the outcome of the primary election that produced Andy Uba as the party’s candidate.