MR. EMMANUEL ANDY NNAMDI UBA V. CHIEF (DR) GEORGE MOGHALU, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC) & ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC)

UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The 1st Respondent and other 12 persons were aspirants in the primary elections of the 3rd Respondent (APC) that held on 26/6/2021. After the 1st Respondent was duly screened and cleared, he campaigned in all the 326 wards of Anambra State, preparatory to voting by members of the party in the said primary elections. Both the Appellant and the 1st Respondent sent out their field officers/ agents to monitor the primary elections on the stated date in the 326 wards in Anambra State. On the day of the primary elections, the Election Committee was nowhere seen in any of the wards in Anambra State, causing the 1st Respondent and other aspirants to wait from 8:00am to 5:30pm for the Election Committee to surface but to no avail. The 2nd Respondent (INEC) also waited in vain and eventually left. Nevertheless, the Election Committee showed up the next day, 27/6/2021, at Agulu Hotel, Anambra State, and announced a bogus election …