'Court Stopped PDP Candidate From Stealing My Mandate'

has thanked the justices of the Appeal Court for stopping the Peoples Democratic Party candidate from trying to steal his mandate.

Nnamchi, in a press release issued by his special adviser Media/Publicity, Sam Nwanze, maintained that he defeated the PDP candidate with over 13,000 votes. He was reacting to his victory at the Appeal Court. The appellate court ruled against the judgement of the three man National Assembly election tribunal which voided his election early September on the ground that he didn’t resign from his previous job in accordance with the law. The tribunal sat in Enugu State.

But, in a unanimous judgment decision in Lagos today, the three man Court of Appeal panel agreed with the appellant that the tribunal’s judgment was a miscarriage of justice and wrong interpretation of the law in respect of the matter. The judges ruled that the trial tribunal erred in law when it nullified the election on the ground that Prof. Nnamchi failed to resign as a staff of the University of Nigeria Nsukka six months before the election.The judges held that based on the evidence before the court, the appellant resigned his previous job three months before the election in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which is superior to the 1976 bylaws of the University.

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