COURT OF APPEAL AFFIRMS SENATOR BASSEY OTU AS APC GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE
The Calabar Division of the Court of Appeal has delivered judgment in appeal No. CA/C/337/22, filed by Senator John Ewa against the APC, INEC and Senator Bassey Otu. The court affirmed Senator Prince Bassey E. Otu as the authentic APC Governorship candidate for the upcoming 2023 General elections. In a unanimous decision on the appeal filed and argued for the Appellant by Chief Awa Kalu, SAN and opposed and argued by Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, for Senator Otu, the 3-man panel of the court consisting of Justice Jimi Olukayode Bada (presiding), Justice Elfrieda Oluwayemisi Williams-Dawodu (who read the lead judgment) and Justice Ugochukwu Anthony Ogakwu, dismissed the appeal filed by Senator John Ewa, as lacking in merit and affirmed the decision of the Federal High Court in Suit No FHC/CA/CS/106/2022, delivered by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, on 24th October, 2022. The brief facts of the case are that by an Originating Summons brought before the Federal High Court, Calabar, presided over by Ju...