Ifeanyi Ubah challenges court decision, appeals sack

Sacked lawmaker, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, has challenged the decision that removed him by a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in the Bwari area of Abuja by moving for an appeal.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja is set to hear the suit filed by the former senator who represented Anambra South district in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly.

The Young Progressives Party (YPP) representative was axed on January 17, following a ruling by Justice Bello Kawu, reaffirming Ubah's sack.

He ordered that Mr Obinna Uzoh of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who had challenged the embattled lawmaker’s victory in the Anambra South senatorial district election of February 23, be recognised as the winner of the election.

Justice Kawu also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a certificate of return to Uzoh, the applicant, as the senator-elect in the district.

He sacked Ubah and declared that the second defendant in the suit – the YPP – did not have the locus standi and should not have participated in the election.

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