Nsukka Igbo-Eze South: Constituent petitions NDC, demands Tony Ugwu’s disqualification

A acrophobic constituent from Nsukka/Igbo-Eze South Federal Constituency, Mr Idoko Chidozie has threatened tribunal enactment if Hon Tony Ugwu is not disqualified from the contention to correspond the constituency.

Idoko’s menace was contained successful a petition written done his lawyer, Dominic C Aroh, Esq, addressed to the Chairman of the NDC successful Enugu State and copied to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, NDC National Chairman, among others.

In the petition obtained by journalists connected Wednesday, Idoko alleged that Ugwu possessed dual enactment membership, adding that giving him the NDC summons would beryllium to the detriment of the party.

According to him, Ugwu, who is the Nsukka Local Government Area Coordinator of Hon Ikeje Asogwa Enugu North All Progressives Congress, APC, Senatorial campaigner for the June bye-election, is said to beryllium moving to get the NDC ticket.

He noted that specified a improvement amounted to dual enactment membership.

Idoko, an NDC subordinate from Nsukka Local Government Area said, though Hon. Tony Ugwu arsenic a Citizen of Nigeria is entitled to beryllium to immoderate Political Party of his prime arsenic guaranteed nether Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as Amended), helium was not permitted to beryllium to 2 governmental parties astatine the aforesaid time.

He said, “We are alert that...