APGA guber candidate withdraws petition against Enugu Governor
From Chinedu Nwafor, Abakaliki
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections, Mr. Frank Nweke Jr., has withdrawn the petition he filed against Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, challenging the outcome of the March 18 governorship election in the state.
During the proceedings on Sunday, Nweke’s Counsel, Prof. Race Achara, addressed the tribunal and expressed his client’s intention to make an oral application to withdraw the petition marked as EPTEN/GOV/07/2023, from the court.
Achara said: “My lords, as instructed by my client, I wish to make an oral application before the honorable tribunal to withdraw the petition filed against the first, second, and third respondents in this matter so that we will no longer be wasting the time of the court, as we were not able to gather the evidence that will help in prosecuting the matter.”
Responding to the petitioner’s application, the first, second, and third respondents informed the court that they had no objections to Nweke’s motion of withdrawal.
Consequently, the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice M. K Akano struck out the petition.
Following the withdrawal, Counsel to the first respondent, PMB Onyia (Esq.) while addressing Journalists said the petitioners chose to withdraw their petition because they deemed it unlikely to succeed. “I would like to say that they withdrew their petition because it had no chance of succeeding,” Onyia explained.
The withdrawal of the petition marks the conclusion of the legal battle against Governor Peter Mbah’s victory in the Enugu State governorship election by APGA.
