Moughalu Writes Federal High Court, Seeks To Stop Senator Uba’s Petition Over APC Nomination

 

By Izuchukwu Okosi

Director General of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) Chief George Moughalu has challenged Senator Andy Uba’s decision to stall a suit filed against the latter at the Federal High Court, Abuja over his nomination by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the flagbearer of the All Progressive Congress for Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra state.

Moughalu had raised concerns over the conduct of the primaries held on June 26 and instituted a suit against the All Progressives Congress (APC) for ostensibly failing to conduct a free and fair primaries that eliminated him and installed Uba as the governorship candidate for the party.

In a rather bizzare twist to the situation, Uba through his lawyer M. A Mahmud SAN wrote to the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ekwo asking the court not to deliver judgement citing insecurity.

The Court reportedly accepted senator Uba’s application.

This has infuriated the camp of Chief Moughalu who has written to Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in a bid to ensure that the court do not go ahead with the decision to block the judgment against Uba.

Moughalu insists that if senator Uba feels if there is insecurity issues in relation to the November 6 gubernatorial election, he should approach the Independent National Electoral Commission to postpone the election.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.

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