The Supreme Court on Tuesday, dismissed the appeals filed by Andy Uba and the APC marked: SC/CV/240/2022 and SC/CV/241/2022, in the February 2021 governorship election in Anambra State as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In dismissing the case, the apex court ruled that Andy Uba didn’t participate in the February 2021 governorship election in Anambra State as the candidate of the APC.
The five-member panel of the court, while ruling on the controversial election in a judgment said that the APC didn’t follow due process in its guidelines for the conduct of the primaries.
The panel added that the inability of the APC to conduct a valid primary from which Uba emerged as the party’s candidate in the Anambra governorship election, disqualified him.
Following the ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed the February 23, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the December 20,2021 judgment by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Recall that Justice Ekwo in the December 20, 2021 judgement ruled that Uba was never a candidate in the election held on November 6, 2021 having emerged from an illegally conducted primary election held by the APC.
According to Justice Ekwo, the plaintiff, in the case marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/648/201, George Moghalu (an APC aspirant for the election) succeeded in proving that the APC did not conduct a valid primary election from which Uba claimed to have emerged as the party’s candidate.
