The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, now has a fresh set of crises
to deal with as the first runner-up its governorship primaries
in Anambra State, Mrs. Uche Ekwunife, has gone to court to challenge
the eligibility of the party’s candidate in the November 16 election,
Chief Willie Obiano.
Ekwunife, a member of the House of
Representatives, is contending that the alleged double registration
status of Obiano with the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, as a voter should have disqualified him from contesting the
election, in the first place.
In the suit
filed at the Federal High Court, Awka, in suit number
FHC/AWK/CS/281/2013, Ekwunife is also asking the court to declare her as
the candidate of APGA.
Obiano, APGA and INEC are the defendants in the suit.
Ekwunife
is also seeking, among other reliefs, that INEC should be compelled to
recognise her as candidate of the party for the November 16 governorship
election in Anambra State, based on Obiano’s double registration, a
crime that is punishable under the electoral act.
Obiano was
caught on INEC computer to have registered in Lagos and Anambra states
respectively, an act that amounts to double registration as stipulated
by the electoral act.
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