A High Court in Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Friday, January 17, affirmed the sacking of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of Young Peoples Party (YPP).
Ubah, a Nigerian businessman, CEO of Capital Oil and owner of Ifeanyi Ubah FC won the Senatorial seat into Anambra South on February 23, 2019.
The court, in a ruling by Justice Bello Kawu, re-affirmed the order it made on April 11, 2019, and declined to set aside its judgment on the nullification of Ubah for allegedly using a forged National Examination Council (NECO) certificate to contest the senatorial election held in the state.
It, therefore, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the Certificate of Return it issued to Ubah and issue a fresh one to Obinna Uzoh of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who came second in the poll.
It would be recalled that Ubah had approached the court to set aside the judgment which he insisted occasioned a grave miscarriage of justice against him.
Ubah decried that he was neither served with the court processes nor hearing notice with respect to the suit before the court proceeded to deliver them against him. Following his application for stay of execution, Justice Kawu, on December 4, restrained the Senate president from swearing-in Uzoh, pending the hearing and determination of the motion challenging the verdict.
The court equally ordered all the parties, including the INEC to maintain the status quo till it decides the merit in Ubah’s contention. In a ruling on Friday, January 17, Justice Kawu, however, held that Senator Ubah’s application to vacate its judgment lacked merit and accordingly dismissed it.
It equally dismissed a motion another claimant to the PDP senatorial ticket, Chief Chris Uba, filed to be joined as an interested party in the substantive suit marked CV/3044/2018, which was filed before the court by an electorate in the state, Anani Chuka.
