Eight aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State have sued the party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the Federal High Court in Uyo over their alleged disqualification from the party’s State House of Assembly primaries.
The suit, marked FHC/UY/CS/104/2026 and filed at the Federal High Court, Uyo, listed the applicants as Asuquo Okon, Uko Johnson, Kennedy Akpan, Effiong Bassey, Nsunwara Osung, Noah Okon, Nyoho Jackson and Godwin Umontuen.
The respondents are the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the APC, the party’s state screening appeal committee, the national leadership of the APC and INEC.
In the originating summons dated 18 May and filed through their counsel, Nsikak Ekpenyong and Uduak Ekanem, the applicants accused the respondents of breaching constitutional provisions and the Electoral Act in the conduct of the screening exercise for the 2026 State House of Assembly elections.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that disqualified APC aspirants for the state assembly claimed that the President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio and Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom handpicked the party candidates for the assembly elections.
