…orders INEC to issue him certificate of return within 72 hours
Abuja Federal High Court has declared Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as the winner of Imo North senatorial bye-election.
This came as the court on Thursday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue Ararume a certificate of return within 72 hours.
It declared Ararume as the valid candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the December 5, 2020 Imo North senatorial bye-election.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment, said Ararume remained the winner of the election going by the earlier judgments of the court.
According to him, with regard to the Appeal Court judgment in Abuja, the 3rd defendant (Chukwuma Ibezim) remained disqualified.
Justice Taiwo, therefore, declared Ararume as the APC valid candidate in the poll.
The judge earlier in a ruling dismissed Ibezim’s application seeking a stay of the judgment, pending the hearing and determination of the suit before the Supreme Court.
Justice Taiwo, who described the application as “an attempt to arrest the judgment,” dismissed it for lacking in merit.