{"id":336547,"date":"2011-03-24T23:27:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/court-clears-imoke-ndoma-egba-others-for-april-polls\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T23:27:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T23:27:27","slug":"court-clears-imoke-ndoma-egba-others-for-april-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/court-clears-imoke-ndoma-egba-others-for-april-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Court clears Imoke, Ndoma-Egba, others for April polls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Johnbosco Agbakwuru<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calabar -A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State,\u00a0 has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to accept the list of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates for the forthcoming general elections.<\/p>\n

Trial judge in the matter,\u00a0 Justice Adetokumbo Ademola, in his judgment in the case by the PDP, challenging the refusal of INEC in the state to accept and recognise the party\u2019s candidates for the April polls, said that although INEC was strict with\u00a0 its\u00a0 deadline for congresses, it failed to\u00a0\u00a0 notify the party that it had\u00a0 not conducted a valid congress.<\/p>\n

Justice Ademola said that though the commission cannot hold the party responsible for violating section 87 of the Electoral Act, which recommends strict procedures for the emergence of candidates for the polls,\u00a0 that by so doing,\u00a0 the purported\u00a0 congress held by the party stands valid.
\u00a0He, therefore, ordered the electoral body to accept the party\u2019s list of candidates for the April polls.<\/p>\n

But the opposition political parties in the state, under the umbrella of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has faulted the judgment and vowed to appeal the judgement.<\/p>\n

Governor Liyel Imoke, Deputy Senate Leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba, Prince Bassey Otu, members of the House of Representatives now PDP candidates for Cross River South Senatorial district and 35 others had dragged\u00a0 INEC to court for refusing to accept the list of the candidates after the party\u2019s primary election.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0Johnbosco Agbakwuru Calabar -A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State,\u00a0 has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to accept the list of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates for the forthcoming general elections. Trial judge in the matter,\u00a0 Justice Adetokumbo Ademola, in his judgment in the case by the PDP, challenging the refusal of INEC in the state to accept and recognise the party\u2019s candidates for the April polls, said that although INEC was strict with\u00a0 its\u00a0 deadline for congresses, it failed to\u00a0\u00a0 notify the party that it had\u00a0 not conducted a valid congress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nCourt clears Imoke, Ndoma-Egba, others for April polls - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/court-clears-imoke-ndoma-egba-others-for-april-polls\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Court clears Imoke, Ndoma-Egba, others for April polls - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By\u00a0Johnbosco Agbakwuru Calabar -A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State,\u00a0 has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to accept the list of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidates for the forthcoming general elections. 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