The Supreme Court today waived the Court of Appeal’s decision that ordered the removal of the Chairman Senate Committee on Gas, Senator Nkechi Nwogu, as the duly elected Senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District.
Presiding Justice Francis Adebiyi while setting aside the lower court’s decision of December 13th, 2011, said the sole ground for removing Senator Nwogu from office was not on election irregularities and non-compliance but a question of whether Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area is part of the senatorial district.
The court held that “The 1st respondent, Hon. Emeka Atuma sought to explore victory by relying on an issue that is purely on delineation on Federal constituency. The lower court was wrong to have determined that Osisioma Ngwa was not part of the Abia Central Senatorial District”.
Osisioma Ngwa, according to the counsel to Senator Nwogu, Mr Lawan Rabbana, Osisioma Ngwa has always been part of Abia Central Senatorial District since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and wondered where Honourable Atuma obtained a purported letter which delineated Osisioma Ngwa out of the senatorial district in the 2011 general elections.
