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| Okezie and Ogah |
TENSIONS have continued on both
parties in the suit over who becomes the authentic occupier of Abia state
government house as Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja reserved ruling on the
appeal filed by Dr.Okezie Ikpeazu against the ruling of the Federal High Court
which earlier ordered his vacation of office.
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal
High Court, Abuja in his June 27 judgment on suits filed by Samson Ogah and
Obasi Ekeagbala, voided Ikpeazu’s election over false claims in his tax
certificate information submitted to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
preparatory to its December 8, 2014 primary...
The appellate court reserved
judgments after the parties made their final submissions and adopted their
briefs of argument.
The appeals included three filed
by Ikpeazu marked: CA/A/390/2016, CA/A/ 390D and CA/A/406/2016
Ikpeazu, was represented by a team
of 37 lawyers including eight Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), led by Chief
Wole Olanipekun while Ogah’s team of lawyers included Alex Iziyon (SAN),
Dipo Okpeseyi (SAN) and Femi Falana (SAN).
Friday Nwosu who came fifth at the
primary was through his lawyer, J. C. Idoko urged the court to set aside the
judgment and allow his client’s appeal, including making Nwosu the governor of
Abia State having disqualified Ikpeazu and Ogah.
Having
adopted briefs of argument, the court reserved ruling on the matter.
