Thursday, 30 May 2019

Tension As Appeal Court Sacks Regina Daniels’ Ned Nwoko


A storm of reactions by Nigerians has greeted the sacking of Regina Daniels‘ husband, Ned Nwoko, by a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.


Peter Fabian TV understands that the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal nullified Nwoko’s emergence as the senator representing Delta North Senatorial District.

In a decision on Thursday, May 30, the appellate said the case instituted at the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court which resulted in the recognition of Mr Nwoko as the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire, was wrongly filed.
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal ruled that the matter ought to have been brought at the lower court before the expiration of 14 days from the time of the incidence that birthed the suit.
This online news platform understands that the Appeal Court ruled that the failure of the applicant at the lower court to file the case before the expiration of 14 days meant that the case had become statute barred and the lower court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter in the first place.
“As at the time the matter was instituted at the Federal High Court, the case was statute barred. We set aside the decision of the Federal High Court and strike out the case,” the court ruled.




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