Court sacks Ebonyi PDP chairman over late submission of nomination form | TheCable

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A federal high court in Abuja has sacked Tochukwu Okorie as chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi.

Delivering ruling in the suit on Wednesday, Ahmed Mohammed, the presiding judge, held that Okorie was not validly nominated to contest the election having submitted his nomination form on October 4, 2021 — days after the October 1, 2021 deadline.

Dissatisfied, Onu filed a suit challenging the process and listed the PDP Ebonyi chapter and Okorie as first and second defendants, respectively.Onu prayed the court to rule whether or not Okorie qualified to contest in the October 16 election even after he did not submit his nomination form within the stipulated deadline.“It is the opinion of this court that the second defendant was indolent in submitting his nomination form as provided in the guidelines issued by the PDP,” the judge held.

The judge had earlier dismissed the preliminary objection filed by the PDP where it alleged that Onu did not exhaust internal mechanisms available for resolving party matters before heading to court.

 

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