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How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by ojikeebere12: 5:00am On Jan 15, 2020
According to Punch....

In upholding Uzodinma’s appeal on Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed with him that the votes polled in 388 out of the 3,523 polling units were excluded in the final results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the states, on March 11, 2019.


Justice Kekere-Ekun ruled that with the addition of the excluded votes to the earlier declared final results, Uzodinma polled the highest lawful votes with the required spread of votes in the state.

She set aside the judgments of both the Imo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal and the Court of Appeal which had both affirmed Ihedioha’s election.

She stated, “The lower court misunderstood the case of the appellants,” she ruled, adding that “the case was not a case of exclusion from the election but exclusion of votes from final results.”


She explained that the lower courts were wrong to have rejected the results of the 388 polling units on the grounds that they were not tendered before the tribunal by the proper person.


The results were said to have been tendered by the 54th petitioners’ witness.

“P54, a police officer who tendered the results was subpoenaed to produce the results. Having been subpoenaed to produce the results, it was wrong for the lower courts to hold that P54 was not the proper person to tender the results,” Justice Kekere-Ekun ruled
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Ihedioha had argued that the Supreme Court had earlier in its judgment delivered on December 20, 2019 declared that Uche Nwosu was the candidate of both the APC and the Action Alliance and on the basis of that declared the nomination of Nwosu for the March 2019 election as null and void.

His lawyers argued that the apex court’s judgment implied that Uzodinma was not the APC’s candidate in the election.

But addressing this argument in the Tuesday’s judgment, Justice Kekere-Ekun held that the issue of nomination was a pre-election issue that could not be raised in a post-election litigation.


As the consequence of the findings, she ordered, “The judgment of the lower court which declared the first appellant as the winner with the majority of lawful votes is hereby set aside.

“It is hereby declared that votes due to the appellants – Hope Uzodinma and the All Progressives Congress – were wrongfully excluded.

“It is ordered that the votes unlawfully excluded should be added.

“The first respondent (Ihedioha) was not duly elected by the majority of lawful votes and his return as the winner of the election is hereby declared null and void.

“The first appellant (Uzodinma) polled the majority of the Imo State governorship election held on March 9, 2019 and got the required spread across the state.

“The first appellant is the winner of the governorship election held on March 9, 2019 in Imo State.”

https://punchng.com/pdp-fumes-as-supreme-court-sacks-ihedioha-declares-uzodinma-winner/
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According to Daily Trust Newspaper....

In the lead judgment read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the apex court held that Uzodinma proved the allegation of exclusion of results in 388 polling units of the state where he scored 213, 695 votes.

Justice Kekere-Ekun ruled that the Court of Appeal was wrong to have ruled that the PW54, subpoenaed police, who produced the documents of the results, was not the proper person to tender same as he was not at the polling units where the results came from.


The apex court upheld the argument of counsel to Uzodinma, Damian Dodo (SAN) that the issue is whether their results were unlawfully excluded from the results, and not whether elections held in the polling units.


“The majority judgment of the lower court affirming the judgement of the governorship election tribunal is hereby set aside. It is hereby declared votes due to the appellants- that is Senator Hope Uzodinma and the All Progressives Congress from 388 polling units were wrongly excluded from scores ascribed to the appellants,” she said.


https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/s-court-sacks-ihedioha-declares-uzodinma-governor.html

Re: How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by helinues: 5:03am On Jan 15, 2020
Politics is indeed politricks.

3,135 polling units results 96,458
388 undeclared polling units results 213,615

Life is indeed not fair to anyone
Re: How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by kahal29: 5:28am On Jan 15, 2020
Flawless
Re: How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by Staro: 5:38am On Jan 15, 2020
I hate to see anyone being cheated so brazenly.
This is sheer wickedness .... man's inhumanity to man

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Re: How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by Christmasdon(m): 6:00am On Jan 15, 2020
This shows we all we be wrapped in a piece cloth and put inside a vase. There is a cry from heaven.
Re: How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by kingphilip(m): 6:20am On Jan 15, 2020
I am yet to understand how this thing worked but I'm sure in the coming days, we will be able to get a clearer picture of what really transpired and how it transpired but for now let the argument continue.

May God just answer our prayers this 2020 that'll make everybody (both our doubters and supporters) drool with questions like how did this happen or is this really him or his lookalike.

Good morning Nigerians
Re: How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by deboysben(m): 6:30am On Jan 15, 2020
Apc under buhari will never go unpunished
Re: How Hope Uzodinma Proved And Won His Case At The Supreme Court. by kahal29: 7:59am On Jan 15, 2020
Fp material.

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