Supreme Court will today hear and make pronouncements on the application by former governor of Imo State, Mr Emeka Ihedioha, urging it to set aside the January 14 judgment that ousted him from office in favour of Mr Hope Uzodinma of All Progressive Congress (APC).

The motion was filed by the legal team  headed by Mr Kanu Agabi for Ihedioha with the prayer that the apex court set aside its judgment as a nullity as it was obtained by fraud in a suit of appeals Nos: SC. 1462/2019; SC/1470/2019; CA/OW/GOV/05/2019 and petition No: EPT/GOV/IM/08/2019 between Uzodinma of APC and Ihedioha of Peoples Democratic Party and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

On this ground, Ihedioha submitted that “the Appellants/Respondents (Uzodinma), fraudulently misled this court into holding that a total of 213,495 votes were unlawfully excluded from the votes scored by the 1st appellant/respondent in the gubernatorial election of  March 9, 2019 in Imo State. The first appellant/Respondent admitted under cross-examination that he was the person (and not the third Respondent [INEC] or any of its officials) who computed the result that gave him the 213,495 votes alleged to have been excluded from his total votes in the election.”

But responding, Uzodimma in his  preliminary objection dated February 6, 2020, urged the court to strike it out the application by Ihedioha.

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