A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State, has on Friday, July 8, dismissed the forgery charges against Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State.
The court cleared Ikpeazu of forgery charges, saying his tax documents were not forged as alleged, adding that, he remains the Governor of Abia State.
Sources alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was thrown into confusion, because of its special interest in the removal of Ikpeazu.
One of the Governorship aspirants in the December 2014 primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Friday Nwosu, had filed a tax forgery suit against Ikpeazu.
Nwosu, prayed the court to declare him the party’s rightful candidate and Governor of the State.
This comes less than two weeks, after Justice Okon Abang, of a Federal High Court in Abuja, ordered Ikpeazu to vacate office, for submitting false information to his party.
Justice Abang, had also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately issue a certificate of return to the plaintiff, Uche Ogah, who polled the second highest number of votes in the primaries.
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