Date Published: 11/05/09

Court Workers’ Strike stalls Andy Uba’s Guber tussle

The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu this morning failed to deliver judgement in the application brought to it by Dr. Andy Uba of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) urging the court to declare him as governor-in-wainting.

He said he won the governorship election conducted on 14 April, 2007.

The judgement was stalled by the strike action embarked upon by staff of the Judicial Council of Nigeria who were  demanding improved welfare.

Party supporters, journalists and a horde of other stakeholders, who had besieged the court today for the judgement, were disappointed as the gate to the court was shut and the place taken over by security operatives.

All efforts  to reach the judges were not successful at the time of filing this report.

The court registrar could also not be reached.

Shortly after the 14 April 2007 governorship election,  Governor Peter Obi went to court to obtain a declaration that his tenure subsisted till 2010 and that the election of Andy Uba on 14 April 2007 was unconstitutional.

His prayers were answered and Uba was sent out of the Awka Government House after only two weeks.

Uba went to the Supreme Court and his suit was also struck out by the apex court.

He also went before the Anambra State Elections Petition Tribunal, which also struck out his application.

However, Uba approached the Court of Appeal in Enugu to claim that the certificate of return issued to him by INEC in 2007 was still valid and he should be declared the governor-in-waiting.

Meanwhile, the whole of Anambra State is reportedly tense, which made the APGA presidential candidate, Chief Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, to warn that the Court of Appeal declaration of Uba could set the state on fire and snowball into another civil war.

Courtesy PM News