The All Progressives Congress governorship primary in Anambra State has been voided by the Federal High Court in Abuja. The court declared Senator Andy Uba’s emergence as the winner of the primary as illegal.
Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the ruling on Monday, held that Uba’s participation in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State was illegal.
The judge added that the plaintiff, George Moghalu, succeeded in proving that the APC did not conduct a valid primary election from which Uba claimed to have emerged as the candidate of the party.
Justice Ekwo insisted that Senator Uba was never a candidate in the election because he emerged from a primary that was illegally conducted.
The court, therefore, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to delete Uba from its record as a candidate in the election and ordered the APC to refund to Moghalu, the sum of N22.5 million which is the amount he paid for expression of interest and nomination forms since the party failed to conduct a valid primary.
Recall that Uba, during the direct primary, which has now been nullified, polled a total vote of 230,000 to emerge winner.
During the election he only scored 43,000 votes, while the winner of the election Professor Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressive Grand Alliance polled 112,229 votes.
