The former governor of Imo state, Emeka Ihedioha, has finally sought a review of the Supreme Court judgement that declared the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Hope Uzodinma, as authentic governor of the state.
Ihedioha on Wednesday, February 5, officially approached the apex court led by Justice Tanko Muhammed to review the judgment delivered against him and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Recall that leaders and supporters of the PDP protested against Supreme Court judgement removing Emeka Ihedioha as Imo state governor.
PDP’s national chairman, Uche Secondus, on Friday, during the party’s emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting said the aim of the protest was to impress it on Nigerians that injustice has been done to the party.
Some of the PDP leaders at the protest include the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus; the 2019 Vice-President candidate, Peter Obi; and the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe.
Earlier, The Herald reported that National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party rejected the verdict of the Supreme Court on the Imo gubernatorial election.
PDP also described the Supreme Court under Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Mohammed as “heavily compromised” and lacking in “credibility”.
This was the outcome of the emergency meeting called by the PDP NWC to deliberate on the apex court’s judgement sacking the party’s candidate in the March 9, 2019 election, Emeka Ihedioha, and declaring the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Sen. Hope Uzodinma the winner of the election.
National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus read the decision of the NWC in a press conference held at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
According to Secondus, the judgement of the apex court constitutes “miscarriage of justice”.
“Our party has it in good authority that Justice Tanko and his panel are working on instruction from certain forces in the Presidency to use the Supreme Court to take over states lawfully won by the PDP and award them to the APC,” he said.
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