Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday sacked Ned Nwoko, husband to Nollywood actress, Regina Daniels, as senator-elect for Delta North and reinstated Peter Nwaoboshi.
A Federal High Court in Abuja had on April 3, 2019 removed Mr Nwaoboshi as the Peoples Democratic Party’s senator-elect for Delta North Senatorial seat.
The high court had in its judgement declared Mr Nwoko as the true candidate of the PDP for the February 23, 2019 National Assembly election.
However, in a unanimous ruling on Thursday by a three-man panel of the Court of Appeal, the Federal High Court’s judgement was nullified.
Justice Mohammed Idris, in the lead judgment, held that the suit by Nwoko was statute-barred and that Justice Ahmed Mohammed of Federal High Court, Abuja ought not to have heard the case in the first place.
