Again, Soludo Wins; Court Throws Out Suit To Nullify Poll Victory

By Adesina Soyooye

For Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor-elect of Anambra State, it is yet another victory after his landslide victory at the November 6, 2021 Governorship election.

In that election, he had won 19 out of the State’s 21 Local Government Areas, and secured over 25 percent in the remaining two.

Just as he was celebrating his victory, two gentlemen, Adindu Valentine and Egwudike Chukwuebuka, dragged him to a Federal High Court in Abuja screaming perjury. Joined in the suit were his party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

They said he had lied in the affidavit he swore to and submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Instead of filling in the form that he was running for the office of the Governor, he had mistakenly filled it was for Aguata 2 constituency.

The judgement was to be delivered on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, by the Honourable Justice Taiwo Taiwo. But it was shifted by one day to Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Nobody knew why, but that upped tension and anxiety both in Anambra and Abuja where a good number of his supporters, associates and party men and women had converged.

On Wednesday morning, Justice Taiwo handed down another victory to Soludo. He dismissed the suit filed against him as of no effect.