Anambra State High Court sitting in Awka on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to list Senator Ugochukwu Uba as the governorship candidate of People’s Democratic Party, PDP in the November 6 election.
The court presided over Justice Obiora Nwabunike gave the order in a matter brought before him by Senator Ugochukwu Uba against Mr Valentine Ozigbo, Anambra state chapter of PDP and INEC.
According to the judgment Uba’s faction of the party held their primary election in line with the guideline of the party and should be listed as the governorship candidate.
The court also awarded a cost of N10 million against Ozigbo and PDP, to be paid to Uba as cost of litigation.
Meanwhile the Cable on Monday reported how a federal high court in Awka ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the name of Valentine Ozigbo as candidate of the PDP for the November 6 Anambra state governorship election.
Ozigbo, a former chief executive officer of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria, secured 62 votes to emerge as the standard-bearer of the party in the primary election which was held on Saturday, June 26, 2021, at Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka.
Ozigbo had approached a federal capital territory (FCT) high court in Maitama seeking an order restraining the PDP from “tampering” with his name as the authentic candidate.
He also sought an order “mandating” INEC to publish his name as the party’s candidate.
However, the court refused all the orders sort and ordered the electoral commission not to publish the name of any candidate for the PDP pending the determination of the motion on notice.
Consequently, INEC, excluded the candidate of the PDP from the list of cleared candidates for the poll.
