The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu on Wednesday sacked Hon Sam Ngene of the Labour Party as the House of assembly member representing Enugu South Urban constituency.
The tribunal which was led by A.M Abubakar, in its ruling, also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct another election in the constituency.
Abubakar said the ruling of the Tribunal was on the grounds that the number of votes accredited during the elections was below the number of disenfranchised voters in the constituency.
“INEC was wrong to have declared Sam Ngene winner of the election,” the judge ruled, adding that INEC “erred by not declaring a re-run election before declaring a candidate winner of the elections”.
The Tribunal further ordered that the re-run election be conducted within ninety days of the delivery of the judgement “given today the 13th September 2023″.