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  • Andy Uba : CSOs laud judiciary over cert forgery ruling 

    Coalition of Civil Society Group (CCSG) has urged the judiciary not to relent on its oars in protecting Nigeria’s democracy.

    Speaking against the backdrop of the ruling of a Federal High Court, which cleared Senator Andy Uba of alleged certificate forgery,  the Coalition said such rulings were necessary as it puts politicians and mischief makers  with sinister motives in check as they continue to employ all forms of antics at outfitting targeted politicians.

    President and secretary general of CCSG, Etuk Bassey and Abubakar Ibrahim,  respectively,  stated this yesterday in Abuja at a press conference where they expressed excitement that the controversy over the allegation of certificate forgery was laid to rest  by an FCT High Court, especially as the Anambra governorship elections was fast approaching.

    “The leadership of the Coalition of Civil Society Groups observed that by this judgment all persons parading as civil society organisations being used by the enemies of democracy to distract the Distinguished Senator Andy Uba has been put to shame. Also, the victory of Andy Uba at Abuja High Court has vindicated the Coalition of civil society group on their earlier call to the judiciary to jettison the allegations from some faceless organisations that are being used by unscrupulous Politicians”, the group said.

    The coalition  further  reiterated their belief in Uba’s capacity to accommodate challenges and offer leadership.

    “The judiciary must now begin to apply punitive in order to discourage politicians from using the judiciary as a weapon to win political office. By this judgment, the Distinguished Senator is now qualified to contest any election in the federal republic of Nigeria.”

  • Court dismisses certificate forgery case against Andy Uba

    Court dismisses certificate forgery case against Andy Uba

    The Abuja High Court sitting in Apo, Gudu District, yesterday, dismissed a certificate forgery suit filed by one Mr. Uchenna Nnadi against Senator Andy Uba.

    The court adjudged that the plaintiff failed to prove his case.

    Justice Valentine Ashi ýsaid the law says that he who asserts must prove; and that the plaintiff, having failed to lead the court with further evidence, his suit lacked merit.

    Ashi said that the ýplaintiff should have investigated and got his facts from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which declared the defendant eligible for elections.

    He said the plaintiff should have also conducted checks at Union Secondary School, Awkunawu, Enugu State, where the defendant said he obtained his School Leaving Certificate as opposed to Boys’ High School, Awkunawu, which the plaintiff claimed.

    The judge dismissed the suit and said the plaintiff failed to investigate the defendant’s claims and therefore failed to prove the forgery case against him.

    Nnadi had sued Uba on the grounds that he presented a forged school certificate from Boys’ High School, Awkunawu, and so unqualified and ineligible to stand for elections.

    Uba, in his counter affidavit, ýhowever, denied ownership of the said certificate and maintained that he graduated from Union Secondary School, Awkunawu, which he submitted to the INEC and was properly cleared.

    Appeal Court has exclusive jurisdiction over Industrial Court’s decisions – Supreme Court

    From Eric Ikhilae, Abuja

    The Supreme Court has held that the Court of Appeal has exclusive jurisdiction over all decisions of the National Industrial Court (NIC).

    This decision effectively put to rest the controversy over whether or not some decisions of the NIC could be appealed at the Court of Appeal.

    The Supreme Court, in a majority decision yesterday, held among others, that the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to hear and determine all civil appeals on decisions of the National Industrial Court (NIC) is not limited to only fundamental human rights.

    The judgment was on an appeal marked: SC/885/2014 filed by Skye Bank Plc, with Victor Anaemem Iwu as respondent.

    The appeal was a referral of some constitutional questions for the Supreme Court’s determination, to guide the Court of Appeal, Lagos in deciding a pending before it.

    Justice Centus Nweze, who read the lead judgment yesterday, identified the key issue to be determined as: “Whether the Court of Appeal, as an appellate court created by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has the jurisdiction, to the exclusion of any other court of law in Nigeria, to hear and determine appeals arising from decisions of the NIC.”

    After a thorough analysis of all issues raised, Justice Nweze said: “The lower court, that is, the Court of Appeal, has the jurisdiction, to the exclusion of any other court in Nigeria, to hear and determine all appeals arising from the decisions of the trial court (NIC).

    “No constitutional provision expressly divested the said Court of Appeal of its appellate jurisdiction over all decisions on civil matters emanating from the trial court (NIC).

    “And, as a corollary, the jurisdiction of the court to hear and determine all civil appeals on decisions of the National Industrial Court (NIC) is not limited to only fundamental human rights.

    “These shall be the opinions of this court and shall be transmitted to the Lagos division of the Court of Appeal for its guidance in determining the appeal before it.

    Another member of the five-man panel that heard the appeal, Justice Kumai Bayang Akaahs had a minor departure from the majority opinion.

    He said he believed leave of the Court of Appeal was required when appeals from the NIC are on strictly civil matters.

    Justice Akaahs said beside criminal and fundamental rights decisions, there was need for leave of the Court of Appeal to appeal purely civil cases.

  • Leave Andy Uba alone, says coalition

    Leave Andy Uba alone, says coalition

    The Coalition of Civil Society Groups (CCSG) has frowned at what it described as a campaign of calumny against the senator representing   Anagram Southý, Senator Andy Uba.

    Addressing a press conference in Abuja yesterday, the president Etuk Williams said it was worried about the heightening media campaign against the Senator by political jobbers.

    Williams noted that it was regrettable to observe that some political opponents have resorted to spreading of falsehood against Uba just to score a cheap political point.

    He said that repeating a lie several times and expecting that it  becomes a truth seems to be the opponent’s last-ditch effort to  overcome the fear of defeat ahead of the gubernatorial election in  Anambra State.

    ‘’The mischief; blackmail, defamation of character and spread of  unsubstantiated claims orchestrated by those who feel threatened by  the senator’s outstanding political achievement have not been able to  dissuade his followers.

    ‘’Permit me to state that, our concern and worries are that if the current drift to negative political devices in an attempt to win elections is not checked, the polity will witness intolerance and it may snowball into violence.

    Williams also condemned in strong terms the unwarranted rally that held at Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office which was a ploy to defame the Senator.

    Williams called on the INEC and the general public to disregard any falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims of certificate forgery as they are not factual.

    ‘’ We hereby remind INEC that all it owes Nigeria is to sustain the tempo of delivering credible elections.

    ‘’We are confident that the INEC will fulfill its mandate under the leadership of Professor Mahmood Yakubu,’’ he said.

    ‘’Andy Uba, having worked in California after his studies in Concordia University Montreal, Canada, California State University and Buxton University respectively, has garnered much experience even in a more

    civilized society than ours. No wonders his intelligence, integrity and honesty speak volume and places him above his equals.

    ‘’His appointment as Special Assistant on Special Duties and Domestic  Affairs to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, his victory at the 2007  gubernatorial election in Anambra and his successes in 2011 and 2015

    to represent the people of Anambra South Senatorial District is a  justification of his good leadership qualities,’’ he added.

  • Who is afraid of Andy Uba?

    Who is afraid of Andy Uba?

    In this piece, Ahiafor Mez justifies the entry of Senator Andy Uba into the Anambra State governorship race.

    The media attacks on Senator Andy Uba since his declaration of intention to vie for office as Anambra State governor again have been sustained and I want to register my disapproval of it. The situation reminds me of the principled stand Wole Soyinka had to take against cruelty to Igbos during the 1967-1970 Nigerian Crisis. He did take that stand: “the man died who kept silent in the face of evil.”

    Senator Uba is coming to election with clearly demonstrated effectiveness as a manager of people and resources, a helper to the helpless and a bridge-builder who attracts goodwill nationwide and internationally to richly empower all Ndi Anambra.

    Uba was like the biblical Joseph in Egypt. He won and retained President Obasanjo’s confidence before and after his eight years as the Commander-in-chief’s closest domestic aide. Carefully using his command of access to the President, he ensured that strategic positions did not elude Igbos and Anambra State in particular. He was instrumental to the appointment of many Igbo people among others into the Administration. His position, arguably a reward for exemplary sacrifice and maintained by continuing faithfulness, became a wide open door of inclusion and accommodation.

    As senator till date, Uba continued to serve the people. Issues affecting Igbo rights always found a voice in him. Courageously he has acknowledged that Igbo share of Federal Government jobs has reduced since the “change”, but added that the current ruling party would reverse the situation now that he is one of them. He is one of the senators that advocated the inclusion of the second Niger Bridge and the repair of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Railway lines in the 2017 Budget of the Federal Government.

    He has argued for the release of Nnamdi Kanu the detained director of Radio Biafra, London. He has also called for the investigation of the alleged extra-judicial killing of pro-Biafran agitators by the Nigerian Army. He was among the senators who paid tribute to the late ex-Biafran commander-in-chief Odumegwu-Ojukwu, thereby removing the obstacles for the Federal Government giving the departed hero a befitting burial.

    A quietly active lawmaker, Senator Uba has sponsored not less than four bills which will improve the ease of doing business when they become law. Including Company Income Tax Amendment Bill, the National Roads Fund Establishment Bill, Consumer Protection Act 2004 Repeal Bill and the Competition (Anti-Trust) Commission Establishment Bill, these legislative efforts have occupied the minds of fellow senators who are making inputs to them towards enactment.

    Outside the senatorial scope, he has enlarged his people-oriented ventures to wide acclaim. He is lauded for building and donating a civic centre as well as a vocational training centre to his Uga community. An auditorium and an FM station for the Mass Communication department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and an 8,000 capacity church building in Nnewi are also ascribed to him. Also to his credit is the Faculty of Pharmacy building at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka where 120 students have benefited from his scholarship programme.  Again, scores of jobless youth have been empowered to provide food for their families through his donation of tricycles and motorcycles with which they freight people and materials.

    Today, good news of Senator Uba; and tomorrow brings more. The excitement among Andy’s supporters continues to increase; the camp is gaining more and more activists by the day. No wonder, more and more stalwarts defect from APGA and PDP and join APC where Andy Uba has united with Chris Ngige, Tony Nwoye, George Moghalu, Phil Agbasi and other crowd pullers.

    And this is no small worry to those who think Anambra State shouldn’t ask for more. This is the only cause of the desperate attacks on Senator Uba.

    Well anyone who aspires to serve his people must endure flaks. Mandela’s walk to South Africa presidency was no easy walk. He was arrested a couple of times and finally sentenced to life imprisonment. He was a prisoner for 27 years until fortune smiled on him and released him to lead the healing of the apartheid-battered country. Likewise, Trump’s path to the presidency of the United States was strewn with thorns, but he fought on till the end and emerged victorious. Senator Uba must therefore take all the attacks in his stride. So far he has shown the capacity for that.

    • Mez, a marketer and poet, lives in Lagos.
  • Andy Uba petitions IG over alleged threats to life by undercover agent

    Andy Uba petitions IG over alleged threats to life by undercover agent

    The Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Andy Uba, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police Mr. Ibrahim Idris over alleged threats to his life.
    He also fingered a man he named as Victor Uwajeh for alleged attempts to blackmail and extort huge sums of money from him.
    He said Uwajeh had boasted that he was an undercover agent first for MI5, an international intelligence outfit.
    Uba, in the petition dated 7th April, 2017, accused Uwajeh of allegedly targeting him for attack.
    He said the same Uwajeh had attacked a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri and a former Minister of Information, the late Prof. Dora Akunyili.
    The petition said:  “Mr. Victor Uwajeh may have resorted to targeting my reputation, my career and my life through the spread of scandalous falsehood about my person.”
    Uba said he first met Uwajeh during his stint at the Presidential Villa as Presidential Assistant, but became wary when the latter began to boast that he was an undercover agent who had the dossiers of high ranking “politically exposed persons”.
    “My interest was piqued when he made serious claims about how he was an undercover agent first for the MI5 and British government and then for the EFCC under Mrs Farida Waziri.
    “His claims that he had dossiers on all politically exposed persons in Nigeria raised certain flags.
    “My worry heightened when Mr. Uwajeh tried to use me as a conduit to the so called politically exposed persons into parting with huge sums of money in exchange for destroying what information he had on them.”
    Uba said he has evidence against Uwajeh, including text messages.
    He added: “As I stopped all communication with Mr. Uwajeh, his telephone calls and text messages even became more desperate and threatening. He would go between pleading for financial help to threatening in desperation.
    “These text messages were sent vide mobile telephone number 0705155518 and +447424924346. These messages remain available for verification should the need arise.
    ”The character of Mr. Victor Uwajeh is not in question as there have been very strong allegations of similar nature against this man. The same allegations I make today were made by late Prof. Dora Akunyili, Mrs Farida Waziri, Mrs Cecilia Ibru among others.
    “Mr. IGP, to buttress my point, I will quote Mr. Femi Babafemi (who was the spokesperson of EFCC at the time) who had this to say of Mr. Uwajeh: ‘Faced with the consequence of his dubious actions, Uwajeh has left no one in doubt that he will be all out to seek means of blackmailing the EFCC and its leadership”.
    Senator Uba urged the police boss to treat his petition “with your characteristic urgency and meticulousness”.

  • Supreme Court judgement: Stop deceiving Nigerians Chris Uba tells brother

    Supreme Court judgement: Stop deceiving Nigerians Chris Uba tells brother

    The controversy generated by last Friday’s judgement of the Supreme Court recognizing the Ejike Oguebego faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State and sacking Senators Andy Uba and Stella Oduah from the senate is taking a new dimension as Chris Uba has asked his brother and others to stop deceiving Nigerians and vacate their seats in the National Assembly honorably.

    Chris Uba also declared himself as the Senator representing Anambra South in the Senate, pointing out that he will be leading other beneficiaries of the judgement to INEC on Monday to demand their certificate of return.

    Uba who was the candidate of the PDP for the election was replaced by his elder brother following a decision by the Court of Appeal which set aside the decision of the lower court.

    Speaking with newsmen in Abuja, Chief Uba warned his brother, Senator Andy Uba, Ms. Stella Oduah and others to stop parading themselves as representatives of the people of Anambra state in the National Assembly.

    He said that last Friday’s judgment by the Supreme Court which affirmed an earlier High Court verdict recognising the Oguebego executive as the state’s authentic leadership, advised the affected ‘former’ senators and House Representatives members to accept their fate and honourably step down.

    He said he would be leading other members of the party who emerged as candidates under the Oguebego monitored primaries to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday to demand for their certificates of return.

    Andy Uba and Oduah had faulted the assumptions that the Supreme Court judgment effectively removed them from office, arguing that they were not party in the suit which basically had to deal with issues of leadership crisis in Anambra PDP.

    Chris, who described himself as “Senator representing Anambra South” said he was shocked that those who should be conversant with the laws of the land could be deceiving the public regarding their true status after the Supreme Court failed to recognise the dubious way through which they got to the Senate.

    He said: “The time for substitution had passed and we were busy doing our campaigns when, one week to the election, the Andy Uba faction went to the Court of Appeal and set aside the judgement of the High Court.

    “Based on that, they took the judgement to INEC and their names were used to substitute our own. We cried foul then, insisting we were not party to the suit but INEC insisted that our names were initially published based on an earlier court order and that we should go on appeal.

    “We appealed to the Supreme Court and the verdict on Friday clearly vindicated our position as the Supreme Court set aside that judgement of the Court of Appeal, agreed with the judgement of the High Court and even granted all our five prayers.

    “Now, they (Chris Uba and Oduah) went on air and issued press statements to deceive the public that the order from the Supreme Court did not affect them because they were not a party to the suit. The question is: when our names were removed by INEC and replaced with theirs, were we party to the suit?

    “Now they are shouting and trying to misinterpret a clear judgment that has removed them and given us victory. They are just deceiving the public. We will demand for our certificates of return from INEC on Monday because the judgement is clear. We do not need to seek for any further clarifications.”

    Uba said further: “When the whole exercise wanted to start, INEC wrote a letter to the PDP headquarters to avoid confusion, telling the PDP that the Ejike Oguebego exco was the one that it would recognise based on court order of a Federal High Court in Abuja.

    “Unfortunately, the PDP ignored that letter and, instead, set up a two-man caretaker committee to come to Anambra State to conduct primaries. Of course, there was no room for that caretaker committee to operate in the state because the key to conducting the primaries is the 3-man delegates from the 326 wards in the state.

    “It was obvious that without the state exco, the caretaker committee cannot be functional because the people who are supposed to organise the state congress were expected to liaise with the state chairman. From there, they would set up a committee to go to all the wards where the delegates would emerge from for electing candidates into the National and state assemblies.

    “So when they set up this caretaker, the Ejike Oguebego exco went to court and got a judgement recognising it as the right exco therefore making null and void the caretaker committee.

    “The judgment also instructed INEC and the PDP to conduct all the electioneering exercise under the Ejike Oguebego exco including all the candidates who were participating. So, we obeyed the court order and did our primaries as instructed. The exercise was duly monitored by INEC and all the relevant papers were signed.”

    He said it would amount to injustice if the court had ruled in favour of the other group comprising Andy Uba, Stella Oduah and others who allegedly did not undergo any primaries nor visited Anambra.

    “They just sat in their houses in Abuja. INEC and the PDP got copies of the results of our primaries and even sent our names to INEC and that was why the list containing our names was published as candidates before they went through the backdoor to remove it,” he stated.

  • Andy Uba, Oduah, others to INEC: You can’t withdraw our certificates of return

    Andy Uba, Oduah, others to INEC: You can’t withdraw our certificates of return

    •Insist Supreme Court didn’t sack them

    SENATORS Andy Uba and Stella Oduah as well as seven Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives members from Anambra State have written a letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), dismissing reports that they were sacked by the Supreme Court on Friday.

    Mr. Arthur Obi Okafor (SAN), counsel to Uba (Anambra South); Oduah (Anambra North) and Reps Lynda Ikpeazu, Anayo Nnebe, Tony Nwoye, Chris Azubogu, Chukwuka Onyema, Obinna Chidoka and Eucharia Azodo,  in the letter, asked the  Commission not to be misled by reports to withdraw their Certificates of Return.

    They said nowhere in its ruling did the apex court sack them and that the thrust of the verdict was that the national leadership, not the state executive of the PDP had authority over the submission of candidates’ names for National Assembly elections.

    Many news outlets had interpreted the Supreme Court’s recognition of the Ejike Oguebego-led executive council of the party in the state as the authentic one.

    The primaries it conducted produced candidates other than those now representing the state in the National Assembly.

    The other faction, led by Augustine Akobundo and backed by the national leadership of the PDP, submitted its own list containing the names of the nine lawmakers and Uche Ekwunife to INEC.

    Ekwunife had earlier been sacked and has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Okafor, in the January 29, 2015 letter to INEC and entitled The status of PDP Senators and Members of House of Representatives, said: “In two remarkable pronouncements, the Supreme Court of Nigeria eloquently held that no list other than that forwarded by the National Executive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) shall be countenanced by the Commission.

    “In EMEKA v. OKADIGBO (2012) 18 NWLR (Part 1331) 55 at 87 Paras H-C the Court held thus:-

    ‘A diligent reading of the above reveals that it is the National Executive Committee of the PDP that is responsible for the conduct of the party’s National Assembly primaries.

    “The Court of Appeal was correct. There can only be one valid primary and that is the primaries conducted by the National Executive Committee. A primary conducted by the State Chapter of the PDP is not a primary.

    “It is an illegal contraption that carries with it no rights. It is a complete nullity. The primaries conducted on the 8th of January, 2011 were conducted by the National Executive Committee of the PDP and it was the only authentic primaries conducted by the PDP to choose its candidate for the Anambra North Senatorial Seat.

    “On the other hand, the purported primaries conducted on the 10th or 12th of January, 2011 were conducted by the State Chapter of the PDP.

    “It is null and void for the purpose of choosing the PDP’s candidate for the Senatorial elections. It is clear that at no time were two parallel primaries conducted.’

    “ In EMENIKE v. PDP (2012) 12 NWLR (Part 1315) 556 at 594 Para H, the Supreme Court in interpreting a similar provision was emphatic that the PDP primaries conducted by the Abia State Executive Committee  of PDP was illegal as it was not empowered to conduct primary election and that being the case, the “Respondent who emerged from the said primary was not properly elected. Further at page 602 para H, the Supreme Court settled the position thus:-

    “It must be elementary now, that the only valid primary is the one   conducted by the National Executive Committee of the PDP. The   primary which the Appellant participated in was illegal, it having   been conducted by the State Executive of the PDP.’

    “Also the Apex Court in SC.4/2014, SC.7/2014 and SC.752/2013: YAR’ADUA & ORS v. YANDOMA & ORS delivered on 19th December, 2014 per Mary UkaegoPeter-Odili JSC at page 34 held thus:

    “At the root of these decisions cited above is the fact that must be ingrained well in mind of the court and litigants that who becomes the candidate of a political party is an issue to be solely determined by that political party and well in its domestic realm and not for the interference of any agency or the court.

    “In that wise, since all the political parties are National, it is its National Executive Committee or delegates there from who can validly conduct a primary election or conduct a process through which the particular political party is to bring forth its candidate and no other arm of that party including a state organ of that party.

    “That was the gravamen of the case GARBA YAKUBU LADO & ORS. V. CPC & ORS (2012) All FWLR (Part 607) 623 and which the Supreme Court declined jurisdiction and also decided that neither the Court of Appeal nor the trial High Court had jurisdiction.’

    “It was therefore odd for the Legal Department of the Commission to have ill advised the Commission to purport to accept the list forwarded by a self-styled State Executive while disregarding the list already domiciled with the Commission and forwarded by the National Executive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    “By so doing, the Commission purported to have acted pursuant to what was said to be an Order of Court made by the Federal High Court Abuja Division in FHC/ABJ/CS/854/2014.

    “Your Honour, a perusal of the Order made in the said proceedings will not disclose any place where the Federal High Court Ordered the Commission to accept a list of Candidates forwarded by a State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    “That would have been a total impertinence if not rascality as every High Court is duty bound to obey the established principles of law as laid down by the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

    “Thus, with or without an Order of Court, on no account would the legal department or any other authority advise the Commission to accept a list forwarded by a self-styled State Executive.

    “It is also on record that our Client appealed the decision of the Federal High Court to the Court of Appeal which set aside the decision. Upon an appeal to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court on 29th January, 2016 allowed the appeal.

    “This appeal has now excited some attention and has been subjected to blatant and crude misinterpretations which have necessitated this correspondence.

    “This correspondence is aimed at setting the record straight so that your good self will not again be misled by your legal department into unjustifiably occasioning an unnecessary confusion in the process.”

  • Anambra PDP members jubilate over Supreme Court judgment 

    Anambra PDP members jubilate over Supreme Court judgment 

    The mood in Anambra state is that of joy and sadness Friday, following the Supreme Court judgment that removed senators Andy Uba, and Stella Oduah from the National Assembly.

    But the Chief Chris Uba camp who benefited from the judgment is bubbling with the members of the party pumping champagnes in the state in celebration.

    Members of the party in the state Friday, described the judgment as the handiwork of God, having suffered in PDP in the hands of those they described as cabals, being engineered by a member of the national body.

    Some of the roads including adjourning streets were blocked by the PDP faithful loyal to Chief Chris Uba’s camp Friday.

    The implication of the judgment, according to a Chieftain of the party, Chief Nnamdi Okoye, was that Ejike Oguebego would take over the leadership of the party as chairman in the state, while Chris Uba and his line up during the primaries would take over their seats at the National Assembly.

    Also, the five members in the Anambra state House of Assembly who were not in the lineup of Chris Uba would equally vacate their seats for former Assembly member, Hon. Rebecca Udorji and others.

    The members of the PDP especially those at the Oguebego lineup were seen in virtually all the joints Friday in Awka purchasing assorted drinks and foods to passers bye and friends.

    The chairman of the party in the state, Chief Ejike Oguebego, described the verdict as the will of God, while thanking members of the party for their patience all the while.

    Also, he commended the Supreme Court judges for painstakingly going through the Anambra PDP scenario before arriving at their verdict, adding that it showed that God would never abandon his people.

    But those in the camps of senators and Uba and Stella Oduah were speechless, as none of them agreed to speak to The Nation on the judgment.

  • Supreme Court sacks Andy Uba, Stella Oduah

    Supreme Court sacks Andy Uba, Stella Oduah

    • Upholds Oguebego leadership of Anambra PDP

    The Supreme Court has sacked former Special Assistant to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Domestic Affairs, Andy Uba, former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, and other House of Representatives members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from Anambra State.

    The apex court, in a judgment Friday morning, upheld Ejike Oguebego-led Executive Committee of the PDP in Anambra State and the list of candidates it sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before the last general election.

    The court upheld the appeal filed by Ejike Oguebego-led Executive Committee of the PDP in Anambra against the judgment of the Court of Appeal on the issue.

    By the judgment, Andy Uba, Stella Oduah and others, who were products of a second list submitted to INEC by another faction of the PDP, are now to be replaced by those on the earlier list submitted to INEC by the Ejike Oguebego-led Executive Committee of the PDP in Anambra.

    Also by the judgment, Annie Okonkwo now automatically becomes the candidate of the PDP for the rerun election for the Anambra Central Senatorial district, which election was voided recently by the Court of Appeal.

  • Senator Uba did not lose’

    Senator Uba did not lose’

    An aide to Senator Andy Uba said yesterday that the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket.

    According to him, Uba polled 308 votes to Chima Nzeribe’s 60 and Obinna Uzor’s 49 votes, to pick the ticket to run for Anambra South Senatorial District.

    Chairman of the Committee Mr. Tremie Jnr.  returned him as the winner