Group seeks Supreme Court’s resolution of pending Imo guber suits before Nov 11

<p>A civil group, Association for Public Policy Analysis, has asked the Supreme Court to resolve all pending cases on the 2019 Imo State governorship election before the November 11 gubernatorial poll.</p>, <p>The court had fixed October 31, 2023, to hear two separate appeals filed since 2020 seeking to know the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 election.</p>, <p>The two appeals are fallouts of the two judgments delivered by the court in late 2019 and early 2020 in which issues of authenticity of the APC gubernatorial candidate became thorny.</p>, <p>The apex court had disqualified Uche Nwosu from contesting the 2019 poll because he held double nomination of the APC and the Action Alliance (AA).</p>, <p>In another judgment in 2020, the Supreme Court removed Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the elected governor. It declared APC’s Hope Uzodimma as the winner of the 2019 governorship election.</p>, <p>Dissatisfied with how Uzodinma became the APC gubernatorial candidate, a motion on notice was filed in 2019 by the PDP and Action People’s Party (APP), praying the apex court to interpret the effect of the judgment that held Nwosu as APC’s candidate but disqualified him for having double nomination of APC and AA at the same time.</p>, <p>A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Philip Umeadi SAN, had filed another motion on notice to the Supreme Court for the interpretation of the judgment that sacked Nwosu and seeking enforcement of the same judgment as it relates to APC’s participation in the 2019 Imo governorship election.</p>, <p>Addressing a press conference in Abuja on the two pending motions on notice, the group pleaded with the apex court to determine the two cases before another election is conducted.</p>, <p>National President of the association, Comrade Princewill Okorie, praised the court for fixing October 31 for the two suits, but raised an alarm over alleged plans to shift the date.</p>, <p>“It is on record that there were two Supreme Court judgments of De