Nigeria: Appeal Court Sacks Delta Speaker

15 June 2011

Less than one week after Hon. Victor Ochei was elected Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly , the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified his nomination as a candidate for the House of Assembly representing Aniocha North Constituency in the April 2007 election.

Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba, and three other judges in a unanimous judgment did not only dismiss an appeal filed by Ochie in 2007 , it also held that the appeal lacked merit.

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