Bad day for senators, reps at Appeal Court
 Some lawmakers who manipulated their way into the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly are being shown the exit by the Court of Appeal. Eric Ikhilae and Okodili Ndidi report that five lawmakers, whose elections were voided yesterday, are to run again in Rivers and Imo states.

SOME  lawmakers  got a piece of bad news yesterday. Two senators and two members of the House of Representatives lost their seats at the Appeal Court. All the affected lawmakers won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The court, which sat in Owerri, the Imo State capital and Abuja, the Federal Capital City (FCT), voided the Certificates of Return given to senators Mao Ohuabunwa (Abia North Senatorial District) and George Thompsom Sekibo (Rivers East Senatorial District). The appellate court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct rerun elections in the two senatorial zones.

The Senatorial Election Petitions’ Tribunals in Imo and Rivers states had upheld the elections of Ohuanbunwa and Sekibo but unsatisfied with the verdicts, their challengers, Orji Uzor Kalu of the Progressives People’s Alliance (PPA) and Andrew Ibonule Uchendu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) approached the appellate court.


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