Labour Party Raises The Alarm Over Lynda Ikpeazu’s Moves, Petitions Appeal Court President

The Labour Party leadership in Anambra State has raised the alarm over what it alleged as plots by Hon Lynda Ikpeazu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for Onitsha North/South Federal Constituency to derail the party’s victory in the 2023 General Election through crooked means.

The party in a petition to the President of the Court of Appeal, Hon Justice Monica Dongban Mensem particularly noted what it claimed as the celebration of Ikpeazu’s supporters that they had obtained victory through what they claimed as the unproven plot to twist justice at the Court of Appeal in the case of Lynda Ikpeazu  against Labour Party  and Hon Idu Emeka in  APPEAL NO. = CA/AW/EP/HR/AN/01/2023 holding in Lagos on Tuesday 24th Oct,2023 .

Labour Party in the petition endorsed by its Anambra State chairman, Chief Ugo Eme and the chairmen of the Onitsha North LGA and Onitsha South LGA, Dr Charles Ekeke and Mr Ndubueze Nwoke respectively drew attention of the President of the Court of Appeal to the fact that Ikpeazu’s new counsel is Damian Dodo, SAN who the Labour Party officials claimed is a close associate of a member of the appeal panel, Justice Danjuma Mohammed.

The Labour Party as such appealed to the president of the Court of Appeal to use her powers to ensure that Justice Mohammed is not part of the panel to erase all suspicions.

While noting how Lynda Ikpeazu had after losing the primaries of the PDP in 2007 and 2015 beat the system to enter the House, the Labour Party deposed thus:

“Lynda Chuba Ikpeazu (the Appellant) lost the election by  12,861 votes. She filed 15 grounds of appeal wherein the 1st nine grounds are talking about pre election issues, that Idu Godwin Emeka’s name is not in register of Labour Party,  talking about the primaries of Labour Party that produced the winner Idu Godwin Emeka when she was  not an aspirant in Labour Party Primary. She is the candidate of PDP.

“The other remaining 6 grounds of appeal are talking of alleged over voting in 30 polling units, wherein she called total of 2 witnesses in the tribunal namely herself and a subpoenaed witness, one self-acclaimed Statistician.”

Upon the fears and to ensure transparency, the Labour Party chiefs made their appeal thus:

(1) We passionately appeal to President Court of Appeal to kindly use her good office to constitute appeal panel of Court of Appeal justices of proven integrity to hear and determine the above appeal

(2) We humbly urge President Court of Appeal to exclude the inclusion of Justice Danjuma Mohammed a close friend  of Damian Dodo SAN and Former High Court Judge in Taraba State.

While noting that the petition was not to cast aspersion on the judiciary, the Labour Party respondents urged the president of the court of appeal to ensure that Hon Lynda Ikpeazu does not use any surrogate to compromise the integrity of the Appeal Court.

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