Court remove ‎Enugu Rep member over illegal primary election

By Ade Adesomoju, Abuja

‎A Federal High Court in Abuja has removed Mr. Dennis Amadi as member of the House of Representatives, representing Udi/Ezeagu Federal Constituency of Enugu State.

Delivering judgment on Friday,  Justice Okon Abang held that the purported Peoples Democratic Party’s primary that produced Amadi was “illegal, null and void”.

‎The judge affirmed Ogbuefi Ozomgbachi as the rightful candidate of the PDP in the 2015 general election in the constituency having emerged as the authentic primary of the party held  on December 6, 2014.

He ordered Amadi to vacate his seat and also directed the Independent National Electoral Commission, the 3rd defendant, in the suit to immediately withdraw the certificate of return it earlier issued to Amadi and ordered INEC to issue the certificate of return to Ozomgbachi.