Ifeanyi Ubah
The Courtroom of Enchantment has put aside an FCT Excessive Courtroom judgment sacking Senator Ifeanyi Ubah because the lawmaker representing Anambra South Senatorial district.
In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Stephen Adah, the courtroom held that the FCT Excessive Courtroom acted exterior its jurisdiction to entertain a matter that arose in Anambra state.
Justice Adah whereas awarding a value of N250,000 towards the primary and second respondents within the attraction, insisted the decrease courtroom acted like an octopus and denied Senator Ubah the appropriate to a good listening to.
He added that the courtroom additional acted on an unsigned originating summons, which can also be a nullity.
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The embattled Senator Ifeanyi Ubah on January 18, filed a go well with on the Courtroom of Enchantment to problem the judgment which eliminated him because the lawmaker.
He disclosed this to Channels Tv a day after a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Excessive Courtroom sitting within the Bwari space of Abuja reaffirmed his sack.
Ubah defined that interesting the judgement of the courtroom was vital as a result of it lacked the jurisdiction to giving such ruling.
He burdened that neither him nor his get together – the Younger Progressives Occasion (YPP), was served the courtroom notices when the case was introduced earlier than the courtroom.
The embattled lawmaker stated, “Even within the Electoral Act; something after the announcement of an election (end result) is a post-election which ought to undergo the Tribunal, not FCT Excessive Courtroom.
“Even the FCT Excessive Courtroom has no territorial jurisdiction over this matter. The matter was a matter which happened in Anambra South senatorial district.”