{"id":101328,"date":"2022-11-15T00:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T23:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101328"},"modified":"2022-11-15T00:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T23:03:59","slug":"court-of-appeal-sacks-akpabio-as-apc-senatorial-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/court-of-appeal-sacks-akpabio-as-apc-senatorial-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal sacks Akpabio as APC senatorial candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of Federal High Court Abuja, removing Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District.<\/div>\n
\nA three-member panel of justices led by Justice Danlami Senchi on Monday held that Akpabio failed to file a proof of arguments within the time provided by the rules.<\/p>\n

The panel further ruled that Akpabio, being a presidential aspirant of the APC, could not participate in the valid primary of the party held on May 27 and monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which produced Udom Ekpoudom as a candidate.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nA Federal High Court in Abuja had on September 22 asked INEC to reinstate Senator Akpabio as APC\u2019s candidate, being the candidate nominated by the party in the second primary of June 9.<\/div>\n
\nThe lower court had directed that INEC accepts the former Minister of Niger Delta as the APC flag bearer.<\/div>\n
\nThe court also ordered that INEC publish Akpabio\u2019s name as APC senatorial candidate for Akwa Ibom North\/West senatorial district in 2023, stating that the Commission acted illegally by refusing to accept and publish the former governor\u2019s name when it was submitted to it by the APC as its candidate.<\/div>\n
\nJustice Emeka Nwite, who delivered judgment, held that Akpabio was validly nominated as the Akwa \u2013 Ibom North\/West Senatorial District candidate of the APC from the primary conducted by the party\u2019s National Working Committee (NWC) on June 9, 2022.<\/div>\n
\nThe trial Judge faulted INEC for electing to monitor the May 27 primary, conducted by an illegal faction of the party led by Augustine Ekanem as against the June 9 primary authorised conducted by the APC NWC.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of Federal High Court Abuja, removing Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\nCourt of Appeal sacks Akpabio as APC senatorial candidate - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/court-of-appeal-sacks-akpabio-as-apc-senatorial-candidate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court of Appeal sacks Akpabio as APC senatorial candidate - 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