BREAKING: It’s final hope-dash for Ihedioha, as Supreme Court dismisses his appeal against verdict on Imo
The doubts of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate in the last Imo State solo election, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha, have finally been cleared as Supreme Court dismissed the application by the candidate for the review of its 14 January judgment that ousted him as governor of Imo State.
The judgment was handed down in Abuja on Tuesday by the review panel headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Honourable Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, with one Justice Chima Centus Nwese dissenting.
Justice Olukayode Ariwoola read the majority judgment and dismissed the application for lacking merit.
“The judgement of the Supreme Court is a finality,” he said.
No cost was, however, awarded, unlike the Bayelsa case where lawyers to the APC and David Lyon were slammed with N60 million cost to be paid to the defendants.
Ihedioha and the PDP had asked the justices to review their judgment on the Imo governorship election which ousted Ihedioha and installed Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress.
The appellants claimed that the judgment was obtained by fraud and urged the seven-man panel headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Tanko Muhammed to review the verdict in their favour.
