The court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has set aside the ruling of the Tribunal and affirmed the election of the member representing Ideato North and South Federal Constituency, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere as the validly elected member of the House of Representatives.
In a unanimous judgment, the panel headed by Justice Abubakar Babandi Gumel overruled the judgments of the Tribunal which had disqualified Ikenga and nullified his election on a pre-election matter of the primaries of the PDP despite plethora of authorities by the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal to the effect that Election Tribunals do not have jurisdiction over pre-election matters.
