Appeal Court Sacks Enugu Rep Member, Declares LP Candidate Winner

 

Hon. Simon Atigwe of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been sacked as member of the House of Representatives.

 

This comes after the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu upheld the sack of Atigwe by Election Petition Tribunal.

 

The court also affirmed the declaration of Hon. Dennis Nnamdi Agbo of the Labour Party, LP, as the winner of the 3rd February, 2024 re-run election for Igbo-Eze North/Udenu Federal Constituency.

 

The judgement was unanimously delivered by the three members of the panel and read out by the chairman of the panel Justice Ekanem.

 

One of the Labour Party lawyers, Ifeanyi Ogenyi confirmed this in a post on Wednesday.

 

“The wheel of justice turns slowly, but it grinds.Truth and justice has prevail, no matter the wait. Dennis Agbo has prevailed!,” he wrote.

 

Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Atigwe the winner of the re-run election.

 

But Agbo, who had earlier won the February 25th, 2023 election but was sacked by the appellate court proceeded to the tribunal to challenge Atigwe’s declaration and won the case, and too at the Appeal court.