A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday affirmed in two separately rulings on Friday that the certificate of return issued to Uche Ogah by the Independent National Electoral Commission paving the way for him to be sworn in as Governor of Abia State, was valid. Justice Okon Abang ruled that the two separate judgments delivered on June 27, removing Onyechi Ikpeazu as Governor of Abia State and ordering Ogah to be sworn in his stead could no longer be stayed since the Independent National Electoral Commission had already issued fresh certificate of return to Ogah. He ruled that the judgment removing Ikpeazu remained valid until it is set aside by the Court of Appeal. The judge ruled, “The order of the court subsists until set aside by the Court of Appeal. “Therefore, the INEC lawfully issued Certificate of Return to Dr. Sampson Ikpeazu as it was in line with the judgment of this court.” The judge made this declaration in two separate rulings dismissing the motions for stay of execution filed by Ikpeazu and the Peoples Democratic Party with respect to one of the two judgments delivered on June 27. The June 27 judgments were delivered in two suits separately filed by Ogah and one Obasi Uba Eleagbara. While the court refused to hear Ikpeazu’s motion for stay of execution of the judgment with respect to the case numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/71/2016 which was personally filed by Ogah, the court dismissed a similar motion filed by the embattled governor and the PDP with respect to the suit, numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/1086/2014. With regard to the first case (filed by Ogah), the judge ruled that he could not go ahead to hear the motion for stay of execution since lawyers to the opposing parties (Ogah and Ikpeazu) had both submitted that the court no longer had jurisdiction to hear it because the appeal against the court’s judgment had been entered and appeal number issued. But the court dismissed the motion for stay of execution filed by Ikpeazu with respect to the judgment on the case filed by Eleagbara, on the grounds that it lacked merit. Though Ikpeazu’s lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), sought to withdraw the application after the judge refused his request for an adjournment of the hearing on the motion, the judge held that the prayer for its withdrawal was belated since Ogah’s lawyer, Alex Izinyon (SAN) had been made to file a counter-affidavit opposing it. The judge held that since issues had been joined, the motion for stay of execution was deemed to have been heard regardless of whether it was formally moved in the open court. Justice Abang also held that since INEC had issued Certificate of Return to Ogah, there was nothing left to be stayed.

if this the ruling of the federal high court in abuja , then what is happening in federal high court owerri.

Let him and swear him in

Udpconcept:
if this the ruling of the federal high court in abuja , then what is happening in federal high court owerri.

owerri is b/w him and F K N.while Abuja own is him and OGA.na wa o! Me self no longer understand all this courts things.

Please op add your source before I can say a word on this...

Confusionist

The judge is talking trash. His judgement cannot stand the test of time. Ogah is holding a useless paper. The truth is that the judge and the INEC had bagain with Ogah simple.Let the judge swear him in; a mere high Court lacks the power to remove a sitting gov as long as the gov has appealed the case. That is the law.

The judge wants to bring kataka for Abia State.

There is confusion everywhere. Just as one tries to settle another springs up. From presidency to the marketplace, conFUSION.

The whole issue is getting more confusing by the day

chucks4sure:
The judge is talking trash. His judgement cannot stand the test of time. Uga is holding a useless paper. The truth is that the judge and the INEC had bagain with Uga simple.Let the judge swear him in; a mere high Court lacks the power to remove a sitting gov as long as the gov has appealed the case. That is the law.

The judge wants to bring kataka for Abia State.

Mmmmmh. My brother he is not talking trash. This Ogah Vs Ikpeazu case is very bad and the embattled Governor knows this. The only good thing in this case is Wole Olanikpekun that is leading the Gov legal team.

Two PDP Chairmen
Two governors in Abia State
Two Federal High Court Rulings
Everything na double double!!
Ndi ara!

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Our courts are divided. And any house that divides against itself is....

But really. This is funny. Today, court A will say yes while court B will say no on the same matter. Yet they use the same constitution. I wonder how they interpret all these their stuffs. But the common man has no confidence in these courts.

Na look I just dey look