Sir Friday Nwosu, a PDP governorship aspirant in Abia State who filed an
appeal against the June 27th judgment of Justice Okon Abang which declared
Dr. Uche Ogah as governor; has said he will appeal to the Supreme Court
over the verdict of the Appeal Court panel which dismissed his suit
against Ogah and affirmed Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, as governor.
He lamented that the Justice Helen Ogunwumiju led five man panel ignored
the major grounds of his suit against Ogah and occasioned a miscarriage of
justice.
Nwosu who further accused the Appeal court of not considering the
documents placed before them,insisted that Ogah’s suit is an abuse of
court process and ought to have been dismissed as it was pursued contrary
to the rules and order of the Federal High Court.
The PDP chieftain also condemned the verdict affirming Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu
as governor, stressing that the appeal court erred in ignoring the obvious
false information and discrepancies in his tax document where he lied on
oath.
He said, “I have already briefed my lawyers to appeal to the Supreme
Court. The verdict of the Appeal Court can’t stand judicial scrutiny. On
Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, the Appeal court ignored the obvious false information
and discrepancies in his tax document. This is not acceptable in law. The
mere fact that he is not the maker of the document does not mean that it
was not forged; he did supply false information and lied on oath.
“Uche Ogah’s suit is incompetent and an abuse of court process unless the
Court of Appeal in Abuja is trying to say that they have changed the law
contrary to the position of the Supreme Court in several decided similar
cases. Ogah has no lawful claim to the governorship seat. His suit is
incompetent because it failed to comply with the rules and order of the
Federal High Court which gave him time to serve me. Even when that
happened, Ogah failed to apply for extension of time to regularize the
process which had become incompetent. He also converted the documents I
served on him as a respondent in my suit to file his own suit. I have
challenged him in court to bring the receipts and certified true copies of
his document. Up till today, he has failed to provide them. No court can
close its eyes to these obvious abuses; yet, the Appeal Court overlooked
this abnormally. How can the Court give a judgment in his favour under
this circumstance?
“While appearing as a respondent in the suit I filed, Ogah secretly went
and instituted another suit in the same subject in Abuja. Ogah petitioned
the party that only people from neighbouring states voted in the primaries
while authentic PDP delegates were locked out of the venue. He abandoned
and waived his right to take any benefit of the process through his own
handwriting and signature that there was no primary held. So, is the
Appeal Court saying that any aggrieved person can be irresponsible in his
statements and conducts? The Appeal Court is wrong to have ignored these
salient facts. Nobody should be allowed to claim any right under an
abusive process from the court.”