The Supreme Court has struck out the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress—APC and its candidate in the last governorship election in Enugu State, Uche Nnaji, challenging the return of Mr Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party—PDP, as winner of the election.
Nnaji had argued that Mbah was not legally qualified to contest for the office of the governor during the time of the election, having allegedly presented a forged NYSC certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission—INEC.
The tribunal subsequently dismissed the case and the appeal Court also affirmed their judgement.
The APC candidate who is now the minister for science and technology, not satisfied with the judgements of the tribunal and Appeal Court, proceeded to the Supreme Court for further legal fireworks.
However, a five member panel of the apex court ruled, in a judgment on Friday, that the legal team of the APC and Nnaji filed invalid brief of argument and failed to convince the court with strong reason why the appellants’ incompetent brief should be allowed.
In the lead judgment, Justice Tijani Abubakar ruled that since the appellants’ brief was found to be invalid, the invalidity also affect the appeal in respect of which the appeal was filed.
He proceeded to dismiss the brief and appeal filed by the APC and Nnaji.