I remain your governor, Ikpeazu tells Abians. The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja directed by Justice Okon Abang has invalidated the race of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and requested INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to Mr. Uche Oga, an individual from the Peoples Democratic Party, who challenged the governorship ticket with the governor.
This was based on the claim that Ikpeazu submitted false data to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the party's governorship election in December 2014. The court held that Mr. Ikpeazu was worthy of blame for evading assessment and was, in this manner, not qualified to have taken part in the 2015 governorship race in the state. The court additionally requested him to abandon office and hand over to Mr. Ogah, who came next in the PDP governorship poll in Abia state Nigeria. Governor Ikpeazu was blamed for neglecting to pay tax imposed on him as at when due for 2010 and 2011 in accordance with Section 24(f) of the 1999 Constitution, which expresses that "It might be the obligation of each resident to … pronounce his pay sincerely to proper and legal organizations and pay his tax" Ikpeazu In suit no. FHC/ABJ/CS/1086/2014, dated December 22, 2014, and established at the Federal High Court, Abuja, two people, Obasi Eke and Chukwuemeka Mba, had asked the PDP and INEC to exclude Mr. Ikpeazu from taking part in the governorship race.
The offended parties maintained that Mr. Ikpeazu was not fit and appropriate, having neglected to pay his tax for a long time in accordance with the interest of the Constitution of Nigeria. They approached the court for "A presentation that the third de fendant, Mr. Ikpeazu, having fizzled and/or declined to pay his tax, expeditiously as at when due for the years 2010 and 2011 in consistence with the compulsory procurements of Section 24(f) of the CFRN, 1999, as revised, and in addition Paragraph 13 of Part IV of the Electoral Guidelines for Primary Elections 2014, is not a fit and appropriate individual to take part in the gubernatorial race of Abia State in the 2015 general election, and is precluded from challenging the race." They likewise requested him to be banished from the PDP. Different reliefs looked for by the offended parties incorporated a request banishing INEC from tolerating Mr. Ikpeazu as Abia State PDP governorship possibility for the 2015 decision.
They additionally asked for a significant request that the competitor at the PDP election of December 8, 2014, who surveyed the second most elevated number of votes cast at the said decision ought to be declared the legitimate applicant of the party for the governorship race. Try not to discouraged. I remain your governor, Ikpeazu tells Abians Reacting to his expulsion from office, the Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu advised Abians not to fret, but rather to try to avoid panicking over the judgment conveyed for Mr. Uche Oga against him, on account of claimed misrepresentation of duty receipts. Governor Ikpeazu, who said that he has confident in the legal process included that he will challenge the decision as he has instructed his legal team to file a motion quickly against the said judgment.
The Governor noted that as a representative of the Abia State Government from 2011 to 2014, when he served as the General Manager, Abia State Passengers Integrated Manifest and Safety Scheme (ASPIMSS), and first Deputy General Manager, Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) Aba and Environs , before his decision in October 2014 to take part in the Governorship race in the state, his tax was deducted at source, and when he had need of his tax clearance in 2014, he contacted the Abia State Board of Internal Revenue, and was properly issued with his tax receipts for the period being referred to. He kept up that he remains the Governor of the state as indicated by law and will anticipate the last determination of the matter by the re-appraising court.
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