Appeal Court verdict: I doubt our electoral process, says Ndoma-Egba

Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba of the All Progressives Congress says
he doubts the nation’s electoral process even though he has
implicit confidence in the judiciary.

He stated this in Calabar after he lost his appeal against
Senator Sandy Onor of the Peoples Democratic Party at the Court of
Appeal in Calabar.

Fourteen other candidates of the APC in Cross River State also
failed in the Court of Appeal.

Ndoma-Egba said, “I have implicit confidence in the judiciary
but I have doubts on our electoral process. I congratulate Sandy on
his victory and recent conferment as a professor as I wish him the
best.”

Ndoma-Egba contested the Central Senatorial District election in
Cross River against Onor and lost both in the field and at the
tribunal.

Another APC candidate, Alex Egbona went to the Appeal Court to
contest the declaration of John Gaul-Lebo of PDP as winner of the
Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency at the tribunal.

While delivering judgment, Justice Tanko Hussein said all the
judgments were delivered in brief as details could be got later due
to lack of time.

He affirmed the decision of the tribunal and said all the
appeals by the APC petitioners “lacked merit and were
dismissed.”

In the case of Egbona, the Appeal Court ordered a re-run
election in Igbo Ekureku Wards 1 and 2 to be conducted by
Independent National Electoral Commission within 90 days.