COURT SACKS EBONYI STATE GOVERNOR DAVID UMAHI OVER DEFECTION FROM PDP TO APC
Written by wave FM on March 8, 2022
A Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked DAVID UMAHI and ERIC IGWE, as governor and deputy governor of Ebonyi state, following their defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In the judgment, Justice INYANG EKWO held that the 393,042 votes polled by UMAHI in the March 9, 2019 governorship election belonged to the PDP, and cannot be legally transferred to the APC.
UMAHI left the PDP in November 2020 attributing the action to the “injustice” done to the south-east.
Consequently, the PDP instituted a suit against the governor, his deputy, the APC and INEC.
Similarly, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sacked 17 members of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly who defected from the PDP to the APC. The lawmakers had on November 17, 2020, joined UMAHI and Deputy Governor, ERIC IGWE, to move over to the APC.
