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The Court of Appeal (Abuja Division) on Saturday, upheld the disqualification of Chukwuma Ibezim as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the December 5, 2020 by-election for Imo North Senatorial District.
A three- man panel of justices of the Appellate Court presided by Justice Abubakar Yahaya in a unanimous judgment agreed with Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, that Ibezim submitted false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission to assist his qualification for the Imo North by-elction.
Sunday PUNCH reported that Justice Ekwo had in a judgment delivered on December 4, 2020 sacked Ibezim as candidate of the APC for the December 5 by-election in Imo North Senatorial District.
Appeal Court upholds sack of APC Imo North Senator-elect, Ibezim over false certificate
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the disqualification of Imo North Senator-elect Chief Chukwuma Francis Ibezim as candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the December 5, 2020 by-election.
Ibezim was sacked as APC candidate due to irreconcilable differences in the names on the certificates he presented to secure nomination.
He was also accused of supplying false information in his other documents.
Ibezim had contested his disqualification at an Abuja Federal High Court.
Justice Inyang Ekwo-led court had in a judgment delivered on December 4, 2020 sacked Ibezim as candidate of the APC on the grounds that he made false statements and declarations in the affidavit and documents he submitted to his party, the APC and INEC.
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Tue Jan 19 2021
A melodrama occurred weekend at the sitting of the Benue State Judicial panel looking into human rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) when Secretary of the panel, Barr Edward Yange, took on the position of a victim to narrate his ordeal in the hands of police.
Yange, a lead counsel to the panel and a Deputy Director, Legal Drafting with the Benue State Ministry of Justice, had vacated his seat during the sitting to describe how he was tortured over 13 years ago.
He told the panel that policemen from ‘D’ Division Police Station in Makurdi had on October 5, 2007, accosted a commercial motorcyclist who conveyed him as a passenger on his way to the motor park from where he intended to board a vehicle to his destination.
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