Judgement will be delivered this morning by the Federal High Court, Awka, Anambra State, presided over by Justice Isah Gafai in a suit seeking the removal of Chief Willie Obiano over alleged discrepancies in his voting documents during the November 2013 ballot that produced him as the State Governor.

In the suit, an Onitsha-based human rights lawyer, Barr. Jezie Ekejiuba, is seeking to disqualify and nullify Obiano’s election over alleged submission of fake voter’s card in his INEC Form CF001 sworn affidavit contrary to Section 31 (1) to (6) of the Amended Electoral Act, 2010.

Justice Gafai had on October 23, 2014 fixed judgement without a date after the parties had addressed the court and adopted their written addresses. He later fixed judgement for November 20, only to announce the adjournment of the judgement without giving a date.

“Justice Gafai has finally fixed Wednesday, December 10, 2014, for the judgement,” a source familiar with the case old News Express.

The source disclosed that judement would be delivered around 9am.

Ekejiuba had sued Obiano, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), asking for Obiano’s disqualification as APGA candidate and the nullification of his election of November 16 and 23, 2013, for allegedly giving false information by submitting a fake voter’s card.

Ekejiuba is insisting that Obiano’s voter’s card with registration number ending with 332, which he submitted, is false because it is neither his voter’s card with registration number ending with 172, which he admitted he registered in Lagos, nor his voter’s card number ending with 121, which he admitted was a product of his purported voter’s transfer.

Obiano, through his counsel, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu, SAN, is seeking the disqualification of the suit on the grounds that the Supreme Court had ruled on similar suits lodged by his main rivals during the polls and upheld his election.

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