Imo: Uche Nwosu Withdraws Appeal Against Ihedioha’s Election For Lack Of Locus Standi

The Imo State governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in the 2019 election in the state, Uche Nwosu on Tuesday withdrew the appeal he filed against Governor Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

Nwosu, who is the son-in-law to the immediate past governor of the state and now serving Senator, Rochas Okorocha.

Nwosu’s lawyer, Solomon Umoh (SAN) had earlier on Tuesday told the seven-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Tanko Muhammad, that the decision to withdraw the appeal challenging the outcome of the last governorship election in Imo State was based on the judgment of the apex court delivered on December 20, 2019.

The referenced judgment of the Supreme Court was on a case marked SC. 1384/2019, which had declared that Nwosu was not validly nominated as a candidate of the AA to participate in the March 9, 2019 governorship poll, thus lacked the locus standi to file any case in connection with the election.

Umoh, while announcing the decision to withdraw the appeal on Tuesday, said “Based on the judgment of this court in appeal SC. 1384/2019 delivered on December 20, 2019, and subsequently, on my advice to my client, we have decided to withdraw this appeal.”

Responding, counsel for respondents to the appeal, including Governor Emeka Ihedioha, who won the election asked the court to dismiss the appeal having been withdrawn.

Ruling, the seven-man panel unanimously dismissed the appeal.