S’Court judgment doesn’t affect my senatorial seat —Andy Uba

The Senator representing Anambra-South Senatorial District, Mr. Andy Uba, who was sacked by the Supreme Court on Friday, has urged the people of Anambra to disregard insinuations that the verdict of the court affected his seat in the Senate.

Uba, in a statement from his office in Abuja, said he was not a party to the suit, just as his name or his seat was not mentioned at any stage of the suit, which commenced in 2014 at the Federal High Court.

The Supreme Court had, on Friday, sacked Uba, his Anambra-South and Anambra-North counterparts, as well as other state and National Assembly legislators elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.

However, Uba, in the statement, said the issue in contention, in the case decided by the Supreme Court, was on the chairmanship of the Anambra State chapter of the PDP and the constitution of its State Executive Committee.

He noted that the wrong and false interpretation being given to the verdict of the apex court was a calculated mischief planned by certain politicians in Anambra State who are simply interested in confusing issues.

Uba said, “They are just raising a false alarm. National Assembly election matters do not get to the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeal is the terminal point. Also, there are no pre-election issues concerning my candidacy.

“Those who think they can get through the back door what our party members and the electorate did not give them are the ones giving this wrong interpretation to the verdicts delivered today.

“I have directed my lawyers to engage the Supreme Court so as to clear this mischievous information being peddled by some politicians.”

The apex court, in its judgment, affirmed as null and void a caretaker committee, headed by Col. Augustine Akobundo (retd.), and its list, nominating Stella Oduah and Uba, as well as the rest of PDP state and federal legislators from Anambra State to the Independent National Electoral Commission as the party’s candidates for the 2015 general elections.

A five-man panel of the apex court, led by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, unanimously affirmed an earlier verdict delivered by Justice Evoh Chukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on December 15, 2014, which had affirmed the Ejike Oguebego-led executive committee of the party, along with the primaries conducted by it, and its list of candidates that emerged from the exercise.