Enugu Labour Party Rep Sunday Umeha loses seat to PDP
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Abubakar, while ruling on the petition filed by Uzor, averred that even the purported resignation letter tendered by Umeha was signed by someone that was no longer a leader of PDP.
By Stanley Nwanosike
Sunday Umeha, a member of the Labour Party (LP), representing Udi/Ezeagu Federal Constituency of Enugu State has lost his seat to Festus Uzor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
This followed declaration by the National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Enugu, on Tuesday, that Umeha did not properly resign from PDP before picking the LP’s ticket.
The panel, led by Justice A.M. Abubakar, declared gave the ruling in the petition against the declaration of the LP’s candidate as winner of the February 25 election into the Federal Constituency.
Abubakar, while ruling on the petition filed by Uzor, averred that even the purported resignation letter tendered by Umeha was signed by someone that was no longer a leader of PDP.
It, thereafter, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue a fresh certificate of return to Uzor as the duly elected representative of the constituency.
(NAN)
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