Commotion has taken over the labor party in Imo state, due to a report of the judgment of a federal high court situated in Bayelsa state, which last Friday, June 23, declared that Joseph Ikechukwu Ukaegbu, was the authentic governorship candidate of the labor party in Imo state and not Senator Athan Achonu.
According to a report in Owerri, the said judgment by Justice Emma Akko has further split the labor party in the state, on who should be addressed as the authentic governorship candidate of the party.
Meanwhile, the Ukaegbu group has been making efforts to take full advantage of the court judgment saying that "There were other court cases pending that if delivered would finally compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to officially upload the name of Ukaegbu as the authentic governorship candidate.
“If you go through the judgment you will find out that it was not only Imo state, it affected the Bayelsa and Kogi states. What it means was that governorship primaries conducted under Julius Abure, were null and void. Because the primaries were conducted when Abure was suspended from the party. So, whatever they did was not supported by law.
“By implication, the court has validated the primaries conducted by the Lamidi Apapa led leadership. So we received it with gladness. In the next two to three weeks it will be decided who actually is the authentic governorship candidate of the labor party in Imo state.”
But Senator Achonu, media groups have said that they are still studying the case and would soon make their position known to the public through their legal team.
