Concerned youth leaders in Enugu State have taken the bold responsibility of asking crucial questions and seeking interpretation over matters that affect the good people of Enugu State.

It is no longer news that the administration of Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani in which the guber candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in Enugu State, Peter Mbah, served as the commissioner of finance was marked with serial financial crimes amounting to several billions of naira.

The EFFC which was attracted by the monumental fraud confiscated many properties acquired with the fraud in a plea bargain application by Peter Mbah and his master Chimaroke Nnamani. These properties are yet to be handed over to the people of Enugu State who were victims of the fraud. Recently, there have been also controversies over the true interpretation of the plea bargain undertook by the duo in crime, whether it amounts to conviction or acquittal.

These important questions seeking urgent answers have motivated the youth leaders led by Felix Ugwu to approach the court in a suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/2257/2022 seeking the interpretation of the court and indeed the Attorney General of the Federation whether by the express provisions of Section 36(9) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and Section 270 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, the finding of plea of guilty entered on behalf of Peter Mbah and Chimaroke Nnamani in charge number FHC/L/09C/2007 is a conviction in Law and binding on the duo. And whether the duo are ineligible to contest any election based on Section 182(1)(e) and Section 66(1)(d) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended)

Among the nine(9) prayers made by the plaintiffs, in an extract from the suit made available to The Slides, is a declaration that the forfeited monies, assets and properties be transferred to the victims of the crime in accordance with Section 270 (12) and (13) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015.

While the embattled PDP Guber Candidate is yet to survive the trauma of Chika Idoko’s suit seeking the disqualification of all PDP candidates, and with recent projection of similar suits from other opposition parties, this new suit will technically and psychologically dislodge him from the contest even before the election.