Delta North: Court strikes out Ned Nwoko’s suit challenging Okowa’s candidacy

The Federal High Court successful Abuja on Monday struck retired a suit filed by Senator Ned Nwoko, seeking to void the emergence of erstwhile politician Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta arsenic the campaigner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Delta North Senatorial District.

Justice Mohammed Umar, successful a ruling, upheld the arguments by lawyers to the defendants, including Kehinde Ogunwumiju, SAN, that the suit was fundamentally defective and incompetent from its inception.

Justice Umar agreed with the defence statement that the originating summons could not beryllium amended arsenic sought by Nwoko.

Nwoko had commenced the suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1062/2026 successful his name, but done a idiosyncratic described successful the originating processes arsenic his attorney, Dr Mike Nwoko.

At a point, Nwoko applied to amend the originating processes to bespeak the pre-election suit arsenic being personally commenced by himself alternatively than done his purported attorney.

But the defendants objected to the application.

Listed arsenic defendants successful the suit are the APC, Okowa and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Delivering the ruling, Justice aft examining the originating summons, recovered that the suit was, indeed, commenced by Nwoko done his attorney, Nwoko.

The justice held that the signifier and contented of the originating process showed that the suit was instituted successful a typical capac...