Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri, Imo State, on Friday, sacked Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Saturday, December 5, Imo North by-election.
The judgment, which was delivered by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam, declared Frank Ibezim as the authentic candidate of the APC.
He faulted the November 6 judgment of the Federal High Court which sacked Ibezim and announced Araraume, who represented the district between 1999 and 2007 as the rightful winner of APC primary election.
The justice ordered INEC to immediately enlist Ibezim’s name as the candidate of the party for the by-election.
He said that the revalidation of the candidacy of Ibezim was in tandem with the electoral act, having won the APC primary election in September.
