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Appeal Court Nullifies Judgment Sacking Ifeanyi Ubah
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.”