The Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, dismissed as lacking in merit an application seeking to set aside the enrolled order of the judgment that sacked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State from office. This is as a presiding judge of the Federal High Court, Owerri, Justice A. I. Alagoa, fixed July 8 to deliver judgment on the tax forgery suit filed against Ikpeazu by a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Abia State, Mr. Friday Nwosu. In a ruling by Justice Okon Abang, he maintained that all the orders contained in the judgment it delivered against Ikpeazu on June 27 subsist until they were set aside by the appellate court. Justice Abang gave the ruling on a day the embattled governor, through his team of four Senior Advocates of Nigeria, led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, applied for an order restraining the beneficiary of the verdict, Mr. Uche Ogah, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from executing the judgment.
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