Federal High Court.
A Federal High Court in Owerri, Imo State, has cancelled the wards, Local Government and state congresses of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Delivering judgement, the presiding choose, Lewis Allagoa, ordered for brand new congresses to be carried out within the state.
The choose rejected a movement filed by the defendants, insisting that his court docket had jurisdiction to listen to the matter.
He stated that the recorded press interview between the state commissioner of police, the state governor, Rochas Okorocha and Senator Osita Izunaso that there was no APC ward congress in Imo State on May 5 “was justifiable in law.”
Allagoa cited a report of the Independent National Electoral Commission, which confirmed that there was no APC ward congress in Imo State on May 5.
The plaintiffs, who're a faction of the party loyal to the state governor, had approached the court docket looking for a “declaration that the ward congress of the APC in Imo State which was fixed for May 5 was inconclusive and did not hold, since there was no result therefrom.”