The National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has nullified the election of Ngozi Okolie of the Labour Party (LP) as the member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency and declared Ndudi Elumelu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner. Daily Trust reports that Okolie was declared the winner of the February 25, 2023, federal legislative election by INEC with 53,879 votes to defeat his closet rival and then incumbent representative, Hon Elumelu of the PDP who polled 33,456 votes, and Tony Nwaka of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 11,712 votes.
The Justice A. Z. Mussa-led three-man tribunal held that Okolie was not duly sponsored by the LP as he was not a member of the party as of May 28, 2022, when the primary was purportedly conducted and that he did not resign from public office to contest the election. In a 107-page judgment that lasted over five hours, the tribunal disqualified Okolie and declared the runner-up, Elumelu, as winner.
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