Tension enveloped the sleepy state of Abia on Thursday when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) complied with the ruling of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, which removed Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu as the governor of the state, by issuing a certificate of return as the duly elected governor of Abia State to Sampson Uche Ogah, who came second in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary that produced the governorship candidate to contest the April 2015 election.
The Abuja Federal High Court, in a pre-election matter, had declared Ikpeazu's election as the governor of Abia State null and void on the grounds that he allegedly submitting falsified tax returns to INEC in the run up to the governorship election.
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