Tribunal sacks PDP candidate, declares LP winner of House of Reps election
In Ebonyi State, Engr Simon Atigwe, a House of Representatives member, has lost his seat after tribunal invalidate his election.
Atigwe, who represented Igboeze North/Udenu Federal Constituency, was sacked by the bye-election petition tribunal sitting in Abakaliki, the State capital.
The tribunal declared Hon Dennis Agbo, the candidate of the Labour Party, the authentic winner of the rerun election held on February 3rd, 2024.
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The legal impasse began after Agbo, who initially won the seat during the 2023 general election, saw his victory annulled by the Court of Appeal, which ordered a rerun in ten polling units.
The petition that led to Agbo’s initial sack was filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who argued that the result sheets from the affected units did not include the scores of the APC.
Agbo led the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate by over 10,000 votes before the court ordered the rerun.
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