Supreme Court Declines To Sack Mba, Enugu Governor

By Gideon Njoku

The Supreme Court on Friday, September 15, declined to sack Enugu State Governor, Peter Mba.

Ruling on a suit brought against the Peoples Democratic Party’s Governor, by the Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Uche Nnaji, in challenge of his victory at the polls in March 2023, the Supreme Court said it had no merit.

Nnaji’s grouse was that Mba’s nomination by his Party did not follow due process. He, therefore, asked the Apex Court to nullify his election as Governor.

But the Five-man Panel of Justices, in a unanimous judgement, refused to nullify the Governor’s election.  It held that the suit filed by Nnaji and his Party, the APC, is invalid, and therefore, incompetent.

The Justices also noted that Nnaji and APC were unable to prove why the Court should rely on the alleged invalid process it filed to invalidate Mba’s victory.

The Court of Appeal had earlier thrown away the case, but Nnaji and APC proceeded to the Supreme Court.

Governor Mba has a pending case before the Enugu Governorship Election Tribunal instituted against his victory and qualification to contest by the Candidate of the Labour Party, Chijoke Edoga, who, like Mba, is a Lawyer.