The House of Representatives tribunal has sacked the member representing Igboeze North/Udenu federal constituency, Rt. Hon. Simon Atigwe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Atigwe was declared the winner of the re-run election held on February 3rd, 2024, after polling 23,863 votes to defeat Hon. Dennis Agbo of the Labour Party (LP), who pulled 23,226 votes.
However, Agbo, who had earlier won the February 25th, 2023 election but was sacked by the appellate court, proceeded to the tribunal to challenge Atigwe’s declaration. Agbo argued that the rerun election was marred by wrong computation of results, substantial non-compliance to the electoral act, among others.
In their ruling on Wednesday, August 14th, the Tribunal headed by Justice H N Kunaza said that the petition had merit and declared Rt. Hon. Dennis Nnamdi Agbo the actual winner of Igbo Eze North/ Udenu Federal constituency.
The tribunal declared invalid, null, and void the 2000 votes added to the PDP candidate and restored the votes of February 25th, 2023, of 14,229 for the PDP and 28,870 for the LP candidate, Rt. Hon Dennis Agbo.
The tribunal also held that Atigwe Simon Chukwuemeka was not duly elected by the valid votes cast, as the petitioner won with 23,221 votes, and PDP got 21,863 votes. As such, the certificate of return issued to Atigwe should be withdrawn and issued to Hon Agbo.
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