JUST IN: Court Sacks PDP Senator-elect Over Irregularities In Primaries

A Federal High Court presided by Justice A. R. Muhammed has sacked Delta North senator-elect Peter Nwaoboshi over irregularities in the primaries that produced him.

Muhammed also ordered the People’s Democratic Party to recognize Billionaire Prince, Ned Nwoko as the authentic candidate of the party in the district.

The Court also ordered the PDP and INEC to immediately publish the name of Prince Ned Nwoko as the authentic candidate of PDP for validly scoring the majority of votes cast in the PDP primary election for Delta North senatorial district.

In other pronouncements, Justice Mohammed equally ordered Peter Nwaoboshi to stop parading himself as the Senator-elect for Delta North senatorial district forthwith.

Dissecting all the matters in contention, the Judge had averred that the onus lied on PDP as the 2nd Defendant and Peter Nwaoboshi as the 3rd Defendant to prove that Nwaoboshi actually won the primary election by producing the primary election materials; but instead refused to respect court orders for the production of the ballot papers.

He posited that all evidence as provided by the Plaintiff has proved that Ned Nwoko won the primary election as conducted by the PDP on the 2nd of October, 2019; while also maintained that constitutional provisions were followed in filing a substantive suit against the 1st, 2nd and 3rd defendants in the case.