Nigerian senator, sacked by court, appeals ruling

A senator, Sonni Ogbuoji (Ebonyi South senatorial district), has asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu to vacate and annul a judgement of a Federal High court declaring his seat vacant.

Mr Ogbuoji, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi in the March 9 governorship election, was sacked from office by a federal high court in Abakaliki, presided over by Justice Akintoye Aluko on April 16.

Mr Ogbuoji, in the appeal filed by his counsel, Michael Odo, a copy of wh

ich was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), contended that the trial court deliberately over-looked evidences tendered that showed he resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on January 27, 2017.