Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital has started the trial of Kenneth Kobani, Secretary of State Government of the Rivers State charged with electoral offences, breach of public peace and terrorism allegedly committed on March 19 in Gokana local Government area of the state.

Kobani is being prosecuted for alleged electoral offences by the Department of State Security, DSS.

The case has now been adjourned for further hearing till 28th September, 2016 the continuation of the trial of Secretary to the Rivers State Government.

He was accused of allegedly holding some Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials hostage during the March 19 rerun election in Gokana Local Government.

On cross examination at resumed trial, the INEC electoral officer in charge of the election in Gokana Emmanuel Isong told the court that the rerun election was disrupted in the area due to heavy shooting and explosions.

The INEC electoral officer did not indict any political party or individual for the electoral violence in Gokana.
The Secretary to the Rivers State Government Kobani, who is a lawyer and currently on bail was present in court.

In a related development, Justice Mohammad Liman of a Federal High Court in Port-Harcourt struck out a suit instituted by the PDP candidate in the March 19 rerun election for Degema Constituency Farah Dagogo.

The PDP candidate Dagogo had gone to court seeking an order compelling INEC to issue him Certificate of Return claiming that he won the election.

The court struck out the suit following an application for discontinuation of the matter by filed by counsel to Farah Dagogo.

Counsel to the Lulu Braide, the APC candidate in the Degema Constituency rerun election Emenike Ebete said the discontinuation of the case by the PDP candidate is commendable because the Federal High Court lacks the power to handle post election dispute.

Ebete also said the decision of his client Lulu Braide not to oppose the discontinuation of the matter is not an admission that Dagogo won the election.

Ebete hinted that the case would be pursued in an appropriate court, which is the Elections Petitioned tribunal in Abuja that purely set up for election matters.

Bubu4Sea:
[size=13pt]This one-sided justice na wa.
No be Almajiri's vote for Buhari in the North, was anybody charged?
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Bubu4Sea:
[size=13pt]This one-sided justice na wa.
No be Almajiri's vote for Buhari in the North, was anybody charged?
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shawka:
Biko what about the APC candidate that was caught on live-cam asking for his refund after bribing some INEC officials ?
They (DSS or EFCC) won't try him for bribery & corruption abi ? ... Well I forgot he was a candidate of the " HOLY PARTY ".

Bubu4Sea:
[size=13pt]This one-sided justice na wa.
No be Almajiri's vote for Buhari in the North, was anybody charged?
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shawka:
Biko what about the APC candidate that was caught on live-cam asking for his refund after bribing some INEC officials ?
They (DSS or EFCC) won't try him for bribery & corruption abi ? ... Well I forgot he was a candidate of the " HOLY PARTY ".

truthspeaks:
Aftr dis one can we now also charge fulani herdsmen for terrorism too? Cos it seems it's only crimes in d south by southerners na him buhari de quick prosecute as he has refused to declare his kinsmen frm Libya as terrorists. Buhari sef. In a related news, I heard omenka, passingshot, dropshot, modelmike7 n fellow nairaland Apc warriors were deemed 'unqualified' for d secret FIRS recruitment . Buhari sef

modelmike7:
........ Hey, hey, Hey Mr Truthspeaks, please I have never been an APC warrior, as I had always stated, I am not a political person, I am an individual person , as long as I believe in you, no matter the party , you are my person. In the last General Election, the President, Governor and my Local Government Chairmen I voted for were from 3 different political parties ( my friends kept on wondering when I was doing my personal unsolicited campaign for 3 guys, from 3 political parties!), cos I believe in them, and I am glad my President won. I can vouch for PMB credibility with all my life , but you will never see me talk about some of APC members in the same breathe, check all my post, I only talk good of President Buhari ALWAYS, cos I believe he is the one that can move Nigeria forward in due time, many things have gone so bad and we shouldn't expect a miracle so soon. Suffering endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Maybe where you got it all wrong by calling me an APC warrior was about my comments on how PDP raped, ransacked and looted this country, since 1999 to 2015, that is so obvious for everyone and sure there are some APC/AC politicians that looted the treasury also and I keep saying anyone found guilty, ( no matter the party ) should be brought to book. BTW, do you rememeber Tinubu was taking to court by the ICPC under Oga Jona and he was discharge and acquitted? Do you rememeber that? So I don't understand why all of you PDP wailers keep shouting that he should be investigated all over again. When an opposition took him to court and he wasn't found guilty?! If Oga Jona had jailed all the corrupt officials during his dispensation and PMB is doing that to the rotten one also, this country would have been on the way to the promised land already...... I wrote all this to clarify issue about me not being an APC warrior but an individual person ( but if you classified me with my brothers up there as a Warrior, as long as some of them support my view here, we remain brothers and change Agents together, but everyone has their view, when it comes to politics, some may be card carrying members, while I am not!) As long as you are a good person that has the people at heart, you are my person. This is for posterity sake. God bless Nigeria. I Rise !!