The Supreme Court has struck out a motion by a factional governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State Senator Joseph Ogba for a review of the court’s judgment of September 14, 2022 which upheld the nomination of Chukwuma Ifeanyi Odii as the party’s candidate for next year’s governorship election.
In a ruling on Friday, a five-member panel of the apex court, led by Justice Amina Augie, announced the striking out of the motion after Ogba’s lawyer, Paul Erokoro (SAN) applied to withdraw it.
Before Erokoro applied to withdraw, Obii’s lawyer, Chris Uche (SAN) objected to the request for the court to review its earlier judgment on the issue.
Uche argued that such an motion constituted a gross abuse of the process of the court.
He urged the court it was necessary for the court to preserve its dignity and its finality status by refusing to be persuaded to review it decision on the Ebonyi PDP governorship candidate.
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Uche described the motion as frivolous and a waste of the court’s precious time, a position the court’s five-member panel agreed with, following which Erokoro elected to withdraw the motion.
The Supreme Court had, in its earlier judgment on September 14, 2022, in the appeal marked SC/CV/939/2022 affirmed Odii as the authentic governorship candidate of the PDP having emerged from a primary election conducted by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
The court had struck out the appeal on the grounds that the issue of nomination of candidates for elective office is an internal affair of political parties and that no court has the jurisdiction to entertain it.
Dissatisfied with the judgment, Ogba had filed a motion requesting the apex court to review the decision, a motion the court struck out on Friday.