Imo Guber 2019: Supreme Court Set To Hear Uzodinma Vs Umeadi Matter .Panel of Six Judges Constituted For Case
By Imo Trumpeta -October 15, 2020

The case brought by a former Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Staff Phillip Umeadi, before the Supreme Court of Nigeria concerning the 2019 Imo Governorship is said to commence next week in Abuja.
The matter has to do with the issue of candidature of the All Progressive Congress APC in the election which took place on March 9, 2019 and was won by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP initially by INEC result until APC won in Court later.
Umeadi had approached the Supreme Court to solve the puzzle of confusion surrounding the APC Governorship candidate in the March 9, 2019 election, as he posited that by Law, APC did not have a candidate in that election following an earlier judgment by the same Supreme Court.
Umeadi is arguing that based on the Supreme Court earlier judgment, technically, APC ought not have had a candidate, since it is on record, right there in the Supreme Court that abinitio that the party had no candidate in that election.
According to Umeadi’s prayer before the Supreme, the highest Court in the Land cannot probate and reprobate on the same matter is in “Factual record domiciled in the Supreme Court” concerning the case in question.
The Lawyer explained that prior to the Imo Governorship election, the Supreme Court in one of its judgments had affirmed that APC had not candidate.
Umeadi explained that Chief Uche Nwosu of Action Alliance, AA, in the “Purported” election had suffered a penalty of disqualification for being a “dual candidate” of AA and APC, since he procured the Interest Forms of both political parties.
Following this situation, “Nwosu was technically knocked out by Law and was never a candidate in that election”.
Therefore Umeadi’s plank of argument is hinged on how the incumbent Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, later emerged the candidate of the same APC, which the Supreme Court had hitherto ruled as not having a candidate due to Uche Nwosu’s “double registration” and eventual disqualification by the Supreme Court.
This is the matter that comes before the Supreme Court next week.
Sources said that the matter had lingered this long because it came to the Supreme Court when the Judiciary was embarking on a three months Leave which ended in September.
Sources told this Newspaper that last week, Umeadi filled a fresh application seeking for the hearing of the case fast.
Trumpeta learnt that following the latest application by Umeadi, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which stands to gain or lose, depending how the matter went, has officially been joined and served in the matter.
However, it was learnt that the latest delay in hearing the case was because the Court was assembling the Panel of Judges that will deal with case.
Trumpeta learnt that a Six Man Panel of Judges has in now been constituted to look into the contentious issues.
Our source in Abuja said that with the constitution of the Panel of Judges, the case will come up next week, and would be “expeditiously deliberated on”.
Meanwhile, tension has gripped the two major political camps in Imo politics; APC and PDP.
While each group is speaking with optimism, only the Panel of Judges will determine this matter that has held Imo people on edge for months now.
The outcome of the Umeadi case will bring to a final conclusion to the 2019 Imo Governorship imbroglio, and there is no other Court in the land to approach after this one.
“Let this thing end so that we can all move on with our Lives. Imo State must move on no matter the outcome of the judgment” Chief Stanley Ekeopara, a retired police officer told Trumpeta.

The supreme court Governor going back to the supreme court probably to be chased out by the same supreme court.

As a Nigerian, pray your case will not get to the supreme court.

Still on the matter, #Endsars #EndPoliceBrutality

I support #ENDSARS# 100%

#End the supreme Court Governor. Now

Source or sauce can do

The "Made in Sharia Governor" go hear am.

Time to #OccupySupremeCourt

Very interesting to hear such at this time and season of protest!!!

This is the most foolish case I've ever seen, Nwosu was disqualified bcuz he bought form and participated on two political parties primary for same election ĺnot that he was the substantive APC candidate for that election, typical example is Godwin Obaseki who bought form and participated on two political parties primary for same election, and for his own supreme court is already waiting for him and in this Imo case the lawyer and one behind this case will be made to pay penalty for bringing stupid case like this to supreme court.

Okay

More trouble for the Supreme court governor.

I remember I once read a post here on nairaland about him removed from office..more like a prohesy. Let it not be true oo

Primate ayodele predicted hope Uzodinma leaving office. I hope that prophecy will not come to pass. Enough of court cases please.

AAA593:
Primate ayodele predicted hope Uzodinma leaving office. I hope that prophecy will not come to pass. Enough of court cases please.

Fake prophecy coming from a fake prophet, you know a fake prophet when they claim God told them and what they prophecy doesn't come to pass, this fake man has so many unfilled prophecies......He's a fake man

Supreme Court gov isn't free after all

Austino50:
This is the most foolish case I've ever seen, Nwosu was disqualified bcuz he bought form and participated on two political parties primary for same election ĺnot that he was the substantive APC candidate for that election, typical example is Godwin Obaseki who bought form and participated on two political parties primary for same election, and for his own supreme court is already waiting for him and in this Imo case the lawyer and one behind this case will be made to pay penalty for bringing stupid case like this to supreme court.

Don't bring Obaseki issues here, both are not the same.
Obaseki publicly resigned from APC before picking PDP form which Nwaosu did not do, hence got trapped on that case.
Obaseki issue is exactly same with Ortom of Benue state.

Who knows maybe this is why he wasn't paying salaries since march, he has seen that he is leaving that office.