INEC Commissioner in-charge of Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye said this while answering questions as to why the Commission refused to return a candidate as winner of the by-election.
Okoye, stated that only the Court can determine who will be declared winner of the election which has already been won by the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said the decision not to declare any candidate as the winner is due to several court orders authenticating the true candidate of the party in the bye-election.
It could be recalled that twenty-four hours to the election, a Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri gave a judgment disqualifying Ifeanyi Ararume as APC’s candidate.
On the same day, a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja also disqualified Frank Ibezim from contesting the election.
Ibezim was disqualified on the grounds that he made false statements and declarations in the affidavit and documents submitted to the APC.
