The Chief of Staff to Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship Candidate in Imo State and Eighteen (18) others have been remanded in Prison Custody over an alleged attempt to kill the Imo State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim and former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
In the magistrate court sitting in Owerri, Imo State, under the Chief Magistrate, V.C. Isiguzo, Prince Madumere and Eighteen (18) others brought before it were on the 31st day of March 2011, along Wetheral Road, Owerri allegedly conspired to commit felony by attempting to kill, and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code Cap C38 laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004, as applicable to Imo State.
Prince Madumere and others were also accused of attempting unlawfully to kill the governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim and former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, by throwing stones, sticks and other offensive weapons at the convoy of the duo, and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 131(a) of the electoral Act No 64, 2010 as amended.
The Chief of Staff and others were equally accused of preventing the Imo State Peoples Democratic Party’s Governorship Candidate, Chief Ikedi Ohakim from mobilization of political support and campaign at the forth coming elections by blocking menacingly and violently the major roads leading into the Government House and Dan Anyiam Stadium Owerri, the venue of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Campaign rally and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 320 (d) of the Electoral Act No 64 2010, as amended.
In her ruling, the Chief Magistrate V.C. Isiguzo remanded the accused to prison custody.
It will be recalled that on the 31st of March, 2011, the governorship candidate of APGA had staged his campaign rally grand finale at the Rochas Foundation Complex close to Okigwe Road roundabout in which the road leading to the Imo State Government House and other road that has link with Okigwe Road were all blocked during the rally in which various shots of canon were equally released during the rally.


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