The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri , Imo State , on Friday, sacked Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Imo North bye-election, ThePunch is reporting.
According to ThePunch, the judgment , which was delivered by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam , came barely 24 hours to the bye-election which holds on Saturday, December 5, in the 64 wards across the six Local Government Areas .
The justice , who delivered the judgment in a tension -soaked courtroom, declared Frank Ibezim as the authentic candidate of the APC ahead of the election .
He faulted the November 6 judgment of the Federal High Court which sacked Ibezim and announced Araraume , who represented the district between 1999 and 2007 as the rightful winner of APC primary election .
The justice ordered INEC to immediately enlist Ibezim’ s name as the candidate of the party for the bye-election .
He said that the revalidation of the candidacy of Ibezim was in tandem with the electoral act, having won the APC primary school in September .
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