Court Sack Edo House of Assembly

Nigerian Tribune reports that the election of the politician who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was nullified by a Federal High Court sitting in Benin, earlier today, Wednesday, December 23.



File photo: Law court

The court, which was presided over by Justice Mohammed Lima, ordered for a fresh primary election within the APC, and a fresh House of Assembly election for the constituency. Lima also instructed that the whole process must be concluded within 90 days.


Aghedo and the APC were joined in a suit filed by Mr Godwin Adenomo, who claimed that he was the rightful winner of the APC primary election conducted on December 2, 2014.

Adenomo had approached the court, seeking to be declared the winner of the House of Assembly elections conducted across the constituency on April 11, 2015, having won the party primary.

Reacting to the judgment, counsel to Adenomo, Mr Kingsey Obamogie, said his client would appeal the judgment.

“My client won the primary and a certificate of return issued him and as such, he won the election as conducted on April 11, 2015,” he said.

Just recently, Effiong Bassey, the Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly deputy speaker, lost his seat as the Appeal Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, December 22, nullified his election

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