The court delivered judgement on the election petition on the last day of the year 2015, ruling that Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was the winner of the election, and ordered his immediate swearing-in and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue his certificate of return.
Comrade Bonnie Iwuoha, the information commissioner, in a statement, warned those he said were planning to have Otti, sworn-in illegally to desist from such dastardly act as the state government will not condone it.
Reacting to the ruling, the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said his team of lawyers will study the judgement and file an appeal at the Supreme Court. Alex Otti, on wednessday, December 2nd , restated his commitment to assume the mantle of leadership freely given to him by his people of the state, even as he said that he will not give up on his pursuit of his mandate.
In a statement, the former banker said that the ruling of the Appeal Court in his favour was the victory of silent majority over ‘unjust minority’.
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