Justice Morenike Ogunwumiju of Court of Appeal has ordered maintaince of status quo in relation to governorship of Abia State pending determination of appeal filed by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu against the judgment of Federal High Court sacking him from office.
The Judge, leading a panel of five justices of the appelate court ruled that “both parties should remain as they were to allow the court expeditious hearing of various complaints brought before this court,” implying Gov Okezie will remain in office during the hearing of the appeal.
The Judge fixed the hearing of the appeal for 9 August.
Read our earlier story on the hearing of the appeal below:
Dr Alex Otti, the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in 2015 gubernatorial election on Tuesday applied to join the appeal filed by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State removing him from office.
Justice Morenike Ogunwumiju, leading a panel of five Appeal Court justices had earlier informed the court that there are eight appeals against against the judgment of Justice Okon Abang in which Governor Ikpeazu was ordered to vacate office for presenting false tax information in the nomination form he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to contest the 2015 polls as the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The Judge had ordered INEC to issue a certificate of return to Chief Uche Ogah who came second in the PDP primaries held in December, 2014 to select a governorship candidate for the party.
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So it has started so it shall remain till 2019