The Labour Party’s nomination of Mr. Chijioke Edeoga as its candidate in Enugu state for the governorship election in 2023 has been revoked by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
Justice Nkonye Evelyn Maha on Wednesday ordered a new primary election to be held within 14 days in response to Captain Evarest Nnaji’s lawsuit regarding his unjustified expulsion from the primary election on August 4, 2022.
According to Justice Maha, the Labour Party failed to present proof of notice of the primary election on August 4, which would have required all of the party’s candidates for governor to participate in the contest.
Nnaji had gone to court to challenge the conduct of the gubernatorial primary election in Enugu state that excluded him.
Irked that the party played a fast one on him through unlawful exclusion from the primary election, Evarest Nnaji, popularly referred to as Odengene, approached the Abuja court to determine if his exclusion was lawful or not.
Nnaji sued the Labour Party and the INEC, asking among other things to recognise him as the authentic governorship candidate of the LP in Enugu state for the 2023 election or a repeat of the primary election that will include the three aspirants that were already issued with INEC nomination forms before the one-man primary election that produced Edeoga.
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