Governor Alex Otti of Abia State got his second victory on Friday as the governorship election petition tribunal, sitting in Umuahia, dismissed the petition brought by Ikechi Emenike, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 18 guber polls.
The tribunal in its ruling, dismissed the matter brought by Emenike against the Governor for lacking in merit.
Emenike’s case was that Otti, a former member of the APC did not resign his membership of the party before joining Labour Party.
He also claimed that the name of Alex Otti was not in the register of the LP when the party nominated him as its candidate.
The APC chieftain in his petition, joined Okey Ahaiwe of PDP, Enyinnaya Nwafor of YPP and the Independent National Electoral, INEC in his suit.
But the tribunal while delivering its judgement, at about 6:PM, said the petitions lacked in merit and was strange to jurisprudence.
The ruling came about six hours after the tribunal had also dismissed the petition brought by Okey Ahaiwe, candidate of the PDP in the March 18 polls.