Federal High Court Affirms Ikpeazu as Governor Abia State

Fri, Jul 8, 2016
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BREAKING NEWS, Judiciary

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JUSTICE A.I Allagoa of the Federal High Court in Owerri, on Friday, July 8, affirmed the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State. Ruling on the matter filed by Friday Nwosu against, Ikpeazu on alleged forgery of tax documents, the court ruled that the plaintiff, (Nwosu) was unable to prove that the tax documents were forged.

According to an online source, Abia Online, the court ruled that the tax documents were not forged, and went further to dismissed the matter.

Meanwhile, Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to hear Governor Ikpeazu’s application for stay of execution of the June 27 judgment of the court removing him (Ikpeazu) as governor.

The judge on Friday, July 8, instead directed Ikpeazu and Uche Ogah, who are both claiming to be the legitimate Governor of Abia State to go before the Court of Appeal for the resolution of the stalemate in the state.

He directed that Ikpeazu and Ogah, who was ordered to be issued fresh Certificate of Return in the June 27 judgment, should go to the Court of Appeal to argue the motion for stay of execution. This he said was because the lawyers to the two of them (Ikpeazu and Ogah) had argued that he (the judge) no longer had jurisdiction to hear the motion.

—  Jul 8, 2016 @ 15:10 GMT

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