Gatekeepers News reports that Justice Inyang Ekwo, on Tuesday, dismissed the suit filed by the plaintiff, John Emeka, a senatorial aspirant under the PDP in the May 27 primary, for being statute barred.
Emeka had sued Oduah, PDP, and INEC as 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants respectively alleging that Oduah lied on oath in her expression of interest and nomination forms.
The plaintiff further said the Oduah had under oath, used the same information to participate in the previous general elections as the PDP’s candidate for the 2015 and 2019 polls for Anambra North Senatorial District.
Justice Ekwo had on October 13 fixed today, Tuesday, for judgment on the matter.
In the originating summons marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/841/2022 dated and filed on June 8 by his lawyer, Mbanefo Ikwegbue, Emeka prayed the court to declare that the information supplied by Oduah in her INEC Form CF001, with respect to her participation in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, was false.
According to him, the act contravenes Sections 12(1)(a)(b)(c) and 13(1)(a) of the NYSC Act.
He further prayed the court to declare that by reason of the false information given in her INEC Form CF 001 in respect of her participation in the NYSC Scheme, she was not qualified to have contested in the said elections and or any other election into the Nigerian Senate.
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