TRIBUNAL SACKS IMO PDP REPS MEMBER, UGOCHINYERE, ORDERS SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTION

The Imo Sate National and State House of Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal has sacked a member of the House of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In a unanimous decision on Sunday, a three-member panel of the tribunal which conducted its proceedings in Nasarawa State, held that Ugochinyere was not validly nominated by the PDP to contest the Ideato North/South Federal Constituency election that held on February 25. Consequently, it ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to within 90 days,…

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