BREAKING: PDP's Fate Decided as Supreme Court Gives Verdict on 2023 Guber Election in Southeast State

• Chukwuma Odii Ifeanyi is the governorship candidate of the PDP in Ebonyi state for the 2023 general elections
• Ifeanyi was affirmed as the PDP's authentic candidate in the southeastern state by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 14
• Ifeanyi and Senator Joseph Obinna Ogba had been embroiled in a legal battle over who was the PDP's actual candidate in Ebonyi state

FCT, Abuja - The Supreme Court has affirmed the nomination of Chukwuma Odii Ifeanyi as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi state for the 2023 general elections.

A five-member panel of the apex court, headed by Justice Amina Augie, unanimously upheld the appeal filed by Ifeanyi in the judgment delivered on Wednesday, September 14, The Nation reported.

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Legit.ng gathers that the court set aside the July 19 judgment of the Court of Appeal, which ordered a retrial of the suit between Ifeanyi and Senator Joseph Obinna Ogba on the dispute over who was the PDP's actual candidate in the southeast state.

The apex court restored the judgment of the Federal High Court delivered on June 7, 2022, which the Court of Appeal had set aside in its July 19 judgment.

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The court held that the Court of Appeal was without jurisdiction to have heard the appeal filed by Ogba, because the notice of appeal filed by Ogba on June 17, 2022 was incompetent because he failed to first obtain the leave of court to appeal as an interested party.

The apex court further held that the incompetence of Ogba’s notice of appeal robbed the Court of Appeal the requisite jurisdiction, and as such, all the proceedings conducted amounted to a nullity, including the order made in the July 19 judgment setting aside the June 7 judgment of the Federal High Court, which had upheld Ifeanyi’s nomination.

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The apex court also struck out the cross-appeal filed by Ogba.

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In another report, the Labour Party in Ebonyi recently received a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Linus Okorie, to boost its chances in the 2023 elections.

Okorie is a former member of the federal house of representatives, he left the PDP to pursue his senatorial ambition as the candidate of the LP.

Source: Legit.ng