TRACKING>>A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, yesterday, sacked candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Lawrence Eze as Enugu East Senatorial candidate, saying Eze was not validly nominated.
The court presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba, however, recognized Adaku Ogbu Aguocha, the plaintiff as the duly elected APC candidate for the election.
In a suit filed by Mrs. Adaku Ogbu-Aguocha, who said she was the rightful candidate of the party when her name was wrongfully substituted, contended that she won the party’s primary election.
Ogbu-Aguocha said Mrs. Uche Ezemba, having stepped down after winning the primary, the lot fell on her as the 2nd runner up in the election.
This, she said before the court that Eze was not even a member of the party at the time the primary elections were conducted.
Justice Buba in his judgement, agreed with the plaintiff and held that it was a case of ‘monkey dey work, baboon dey chop.’
The court, however, lambasted Eze for laying claim to what never belonged to him.
This is as justice Buba said there was overwhelming evidence that Eze was still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where he also contested for senatorial primary election.
He ordered that Ogbu-Aguocha should be recognized by the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the rightful candidate for the Saturday election.
Ogbu-Aguocha described it as a “judgement against impunity in the system.”
She said: “The judgment showed that there was justice in Nigeria. I can’t thank the judiciary enough for re-writing the wrong done to me and so many people in this country.
“The judgment has affirmed what I always believed, which is that I’m the rightful candidate. Justice has been served today and I am very happy, I’m grateful to God.
“I enjoin everybody in Enugu East APC to work together for our victory in the general election on Saturday. I have been campaigning all these while because I know I’m the rightful candidate, if not for the impunity in the system.
“His candidacy is null and void, it never existed and that’s what the court held today.”
