Nigeria: The Imo Shock

20 January 2020

I'm now so wearily accustomed to Nigerian political tsunamis and legal dramas that I, as a general rule, barely bat an eyelid when something sensational happens. I usually just shrug and carry on.

But I nearly keeled over on Tuesday when the Supreme Court ruled that Chief Emeka Ihedioha, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) who had been sworn in as Governor of Imo State last May, should be unseated by Hope Uzodinma, a former senator.

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