The Supreme Court tomorrow deliver its judgment in the appeal brought before it by a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], Chief Ikechi Emenike against the election of Governor Theordore Orji of Abia.
The substantive appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which upheld the candidacy of Governor Theodore Orji of another faction as the authentic standard bearer of the party in the April general election.

Chief Emenike has approached the apex court to set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal affirming the decision of Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which declared Governor Theordore Orji as the authentic standard bearer of PDP in the State for the April 2011 general elections.

Describing the judgment as erroneous and an injustice, Emenike urged the Supreme Court to set it aside and declare his client as the elected candidate for the governorship position.

The appellant as plaintiff at the trial court instituted the suit based on section 87 [9] of the Electoral Act, 2010 [as amended], claiming that he and not Governor Orji was the rightful standard bearer of the PDP to contest the April 16, 2011 general elections in Abia State.

It was his position that he was the dully elected candidate at the appropriate primaries conducted by the state congress of Abia State on January 10, 2011 and that the incumbent governor was not a member of the PDP at the material time and should never have been put forward as the successful candidate at the primaries.
Besides, the Court of Appeal held that the purported election of December 2010 was conducted in contempt of a pending suit touching upon it and an application for interlocutory injunction pending in the suit.
In his appeal before the apex court, Emenike urged the court to upturn the two judgments on the grounds that Governor Orji was not a member of the PDP at the time to this case, as he was at that time the Executive Governor of Abia State elected as a member of the Progressive Peoples Alliance [PPA].

At the trial court, Justice Gabriel Kolawole dismissed the suit and held that Governor Orji dully emerged at the proper primaries as the PDP governorship candidate for Abia State.
Besides, the Court of Appeal held that the purported election of December 2010 was conducted in contempt of a pending suit touching upon it and an application for interlocutory.

In his appeal before the apex court, Emenike urged the court to upturn the two judgments on the ground that Governor Orji was not a member of the PDP at that time.see link on http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2012/feb/27/national-27-02-2012-011.html

TA Orji is a fraud any way you look at him. The best the Supreme Court can do is to throw him out and order another election in which he is not allowed to run again. But again come to think of it, a people get the kind of governor they deserve. This man was in prison for fraudulent activities when Abia people voted him in. May be the supreme court can help rescue them from their own foolishness.

Marlboro1:

TA Orji is a fraud any way you look at him. The best the Supreme Court can do is to throw him out and order another election in which he is not allowed to run again. But again come to think of it, a people get the kind of governor they deserve. This man was in prison for fraudulent activities when Abia people voted him in. May be the supreme court can help rescue them from their own foolishness.

Stop saying what u dont know, u and i knows how politics work in 9jiria. Nnbody voted 4 him not even wen in ppa. God will remember us d way he did 4 imo state. this 1 pass our power.

The entire PDP is fraud. Been a present or past.

T.A Orji is a criminal. Let him go

For your information , nobody voted for Orji , it was Orji Uzor who declared him winner and went to abuja to secure his release from detention with the tax payers money. He handed him over a day before May 29th official handover date to avoid efcc re-arrest because he was the then chief of staff to the governor. We are watching and waiting but the bad news of the whole story is that the man who wants to unseat him now is also a thief thief. God will one day come to our rescue.

Lets respect our leaders, they are from God. Governor T.A Orji will be remembered for liberating Abians and also for may things that we might be shying away from. Bless him to do more

we should try and respect our leaders , it is biblical, governor t.a has employed every gained strength and wit to take abia to a new level.we are abian,let emerge together and offer the governor a maximum support, that a basic.singular way of helping the state surge forward.

No body is hearing anything about formal governor who is in prison?