The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, has sacked Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Imo North bye-election.
The judgment, on Friday, which was delivered by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam, came barely 24 hours to the bye-election scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 5, in the 64 wards across the six Local Government Areas.
Onyemenam declared Frank Ibezim as the authentic APC candidate for the election.
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He faulted the November 6 judgment of the Federal High Court which sacked Ibezim and announced Araraume, who represented the district between 1999 and 2007 as the rightful winner of APC primary election.
H ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately enlist Ibezim’s name as the candidate of the party for the bye-election.
Justice Onyemenam held that the revalidation of Ibezim’s candidacy was in line with the electoral act, having won the APC primary election in September.
