The Supreme Court on Tuesday illegalized the participation of Andy Uba, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the November 6, 2021, Anambra governorship election.
A five-member panel of the Apex Court held that the APC breached its guidelines for the conduct of primaries.
The Apex Court said the party failed to conduct a valid primary from which Uba emerged as the party’s candidate in the Anambra governorship election, and affirmed the February 23, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the December 20, 2021 judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
In the judgement, the Supreme Court dismissed appeals filed by Andy Uba and the APC – marked: SC/CV/240/2022 and SC/CV/241/2022.
Recall that Justice Ekwo had in a December 20 2021 judgment, held among others that Uba was never a candidate in the election having emerged from an illegally conducted primary election held by the APC.
Justice Ekwo also held that the plaintiff, in the case marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/648/201, George Moghalu (an APC aspirant for the election) 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.
