A Federal High Court in Abuja has affirmed the judgement voiding the presidential candidacy of Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha (retd.) the Action Alliance (AA) party.
This is as the Court rejected an application to set aside its November 4 judgment recognising the candidates produced by the Dr. Adekunle Rufai Omo-Aje leadership.
The court had, in the November 4 judgment, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept the candidates submitted for next year’s general election by the Omo-Aje leadership of the AA and reject those produced by Kenneth Udeze, among who is Al-Mustapha.
In a ruling on Thursday, Justice Zainab Abubakar held that the application filed by Udeze (who was sacked as Chairman of the party) was unmeritorious and proceeded to dismissed it.
Udeze, whose suspension and expulsion as the AA Chairman had been upheld in two judgments of the Court of Appeal, had applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja to set aside the November 4, 2022 judgment, claiming it was obtained by fraud and that he was still the party’s National Chairman.
