The Court of Appeal in Enugu has confirmed the removal of Hon. Simon Atigwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from his position in the House of Representatives, as ruled by the Election Petition Tribunal.
The court also upheld the victory of Hon. Dennis Nnamdi Agbo of the Labour Party (LP) as the winner of the February 3rd, 2024 re-run election for the Igbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal Constituency.
The judgment was delivered unanimously by the three-member panel, with Justice Ekanem, the panel chairman, reading the verdict.
One of the Labour Party lawyers, Ifeanyi Ogenyi confirmed this in a post on Wednesday.
“”Congratulations to the people of Igbo Eze North/Udenu Federal constituency.
“The wheel of justice turns slowly, but it grinds.Truth and justice has prevail, no matter the wait. Dennis Agbo has prevailed!,” he wrote.
DAILY POST repotrs that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Atigwe the winner of the re-run election.
But Agbo, who had earlier won the February 25th, 2023 election but was sacked by the appellate court proceeded to the tribunal to challenge Atigwe’s declaration and won the case, and too at the Appeal court.
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