The Supreme Court today waived the Court of Appeal’s
decision that ordered the removal of the Chairman Senate Committee on
Gas, Senator Nkechi Nwogu, as the duly elected Senator representing Abia
Central Senatorial District.
Presiding Justice Francis Adebiyi while setting aside the lower
court’s decision of December 13th, 2011, said the sole ground for
removing Senator Nwogu from office was not on election irregularities
and non-compliance but a question of whether Osisioma Ngwa Local
Government Area is part of the senatorial district.
The court held that “The 1st respondent, Hon. Emeka Atuma sought to
explore victory by relying on an issue that is purely on delineation on
Federal constituency. The lower court was wrong to have determined that
Osisioma Ngwa was not part of the Abia Central Senatorial District”.
Osisioma Ngwa, according to the counsel to Senator Nwogu, Mr Lawan
Rabbana, Osisioma Ngwa has always been part of Abia Central Senatorial
District since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and wondered where
Honourable Atuma obtained a purported letter which delineated Osisioma
Ngwa out of the senatorial district in the 2011 general elections.
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