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Court disqualifies Umeh as Anambra LP senatorial candidate 

Ada Okafor by Ada Okafor
January 28, 2023
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The Labour Party senatorial candidate for the Anambra Central zone in the February 25 general election, Sen. Victor Umeh, has been disqualified by a Federal High Court, sitting in Awka.

The court presided over by Justice H. A. Nganjiwa, on Friday, disqualified Umeh on the ground of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act.

In a three-hour judgment, Nganjiwa stated that Umeh failed to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act as it concerns his membership status of party primary.

The court declared that there was no evidence placed before it that the resignation letter by Umeh to the leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), was received by the party.

The court said his name was still in the membership register of APGA as of September 30, 2022 when he contested the LP’s primary.

It also said Umeh’s name was not on the membership register of LP as at the June 3, 2022, the date of primary of the LP.

The court therefore declared as null and void, the publication of Umeh’s name as a candidate by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as he failed to comply with the relevant provisions of the Electoral Act and the LP constitution.

The court therefore declared the publication as of no effect.

The court also issued an injunction restraining Umeh from parading himself as the senatorial candidate of LP.

The injunction also prevented the LP from accepting or presenting Umeh as her candidate.

Efforts to get Umeh’s reaction proved abortive as his telephone lines were switched off. 

But one of his media aides, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Umeh was in Achalla for his campaign rally and had switched off his lines.

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