2023: Ikenga Imo Ugonchinyere wins at the Supreme court

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has finally ruled that Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere is the authentic candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the Ideato Federal Constituency election next year.

The judgement by the Apex court has put to rest, once and for all, the flurry of litigations and schemings from state and non-state actors, to upturn the mandate freely given to Ikenga by the PDP delegates.

The apex court ruled, just like all the lower courts before it, that there are no grounds put before it, to nullify the ticket of the party in the custody of Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, having fulfilled all the provisions of the law and complied with stipulated guidelines.

Speaking to journalists at the end of court session today, one of the counsels in the suit, Barrister Ibe Ezenwa said the Presiding Judge struck out the appeal filed by the appellant, George Igbo for being a mere academic exercise
According to him, there was a stipulated time frame for filing appeals and George Igbo and his group waited until it almost elapsed.