The Federal High Court in Abuja this afternoon instructed INEC to delist Gov T A Orji's name as the PDP flag bearer for the April governorship elections until the dispute between Orji and his main opponent in the PDP,Ikechi Emenike, is resolved.More details will follow later.

welcome development.
orji is a daft and crook, he should be jailed.
he mortgaged the future of abians

it is only abia state that JEG VISITED without commissioning ANY single project even one block classroom, BIG SHAME.

SOURCE PLS! I will be d happiest man on earth if dis is true bt i guess dis shld be febuary fool prank instead of d usuall April fool. I nvr heard abt dis case hw much more getting to Appeal court, i strongly douth this story. Pls poster were did u get this frm,dnt give me false hope pls. T.A ORJI shld be feed to one of those beast in odechukwu's ZOO.

The news is all over the town here in Umuahia.I just confirmed it on FRCN news of 7pm.If u are in 9ja,it should be on the NTA 9pm news.Tomorrow's dailies will definitely carry the news.Gov T A Orji is on his way out of Abia Government house.

praying fervently for it.

'Those who ask for our votes will neither vote or be voted for in this coming election' Verdict 2011

Well, another prophecy from Tunde Bakare on first sunday of this year coming to pass.

Akala, Chime, Bankole, Daniel, Orji and still counting. watch this space. God is at work, do not stand on his way

APRIL POLLS: Court halts Abia gov •Restrains INEC from recognising Orji

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Written by Tunde Oyesina, Abuja Friday, 11 February 2011

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising the incumbent governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji, as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in the April polls, pending the determination of a suit challenging his victory at the party’s primary.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole gave the order while ruling on the ex parte application brought by a PDP gubernatorial aspirant in the state, Chief Ikechi Emenike, against the PDP, the acting national chairman of the party, Dr Bello Mohammed, INEC and Governor Orji.

Out of the eight prayers sought by the plaintiff, only three were granted and these are:

•An order of interim injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd defendants, their servants, agents and/or privies from recognising, or submitting to the 3rd defendant the name of any person other than that of plaintiff and his nominated running mate in the person of Dr Chukwuemeka C. Okwuonu as candidate of 1st defendant for the office of governor and deputy governor of Abia State respectively in the 2011 general election, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

•An order of interim injunction restraining the 3rd defendant, its agents, servants or privies from accepting or giving any recognition to any other candidates apart from plaintiff/applicant and his nominated running mate in the person of Dr Chukwuemeka C. Okwuonu, as gubernatorial and deputy gubernatorial candidates of the 1st defendant in the 2011 general election into the office of the governor of Abia State, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

•An order of interim mandatory injunction compelling the 3rd defendant to keep open and extant the slot of 1st defendant as one of the political parties entitled to contest and have their names and logo (symbol) on the ballot paper for use in general election 2011 for the office of the governor of Abia State pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

The court had, on February 1, when the motion ex parte was heard, ordered both the PDP and INEC to come and show cause within 72 hours why the reliefs sought by the plaintiff should not be granted in his favour, just as he ordered that the respondents be put on notice.

When the matter came up on Thursday, the plaintiff’s counsel, Chief Niyi Akintola SAN, argued that the respondents had failed to obey court’s order by not complying with the directive to appear before the court to show cause why his client’s reliefs should not be granted, adding that the respondent rather served on him the processes that should have been brought before the court out of time.

Chief Akintola said that the process was served on him in court and in view of that, the court could not hear them because they were not ripe for hearing as he has the constitutional right to reply within 48 hours.

He, therefore, urged the court to grant the reliefs sought by the plaintiff since the respondents have failed to show cause why the reliefs should not be granted as earlier ordered by the court.

Counsel for the PDP, Chief Olusola Oke, while conceeding that the returns which was ordered by the court, had been filed out of time brought a preliminary objection as to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the suit arguing that the application takes priority over all other pending application before the court.

He urged the court to take the application first so as to determine whether it has jurisdiction or not.

In his own submission, counsel for Orji, Dr Uzo Ezeoku SAN, filed a counter affidavit and a written address opposing the interlocutory injunction, adding that the 4th respondent is the candidate whose name has been submitted to the electoral body by the PDP.

He raised a preliminary objection to the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the suit, urging the court to take the preliminary objection first before going ahead on other applications before it.

Replying on points of law, Chief Akintola submitted that the respondents were misconceiving the issue of jurisdiction, stating that there was a subsisting order of the court which the respondents had not responded to and had not sought leave to regularise their process.
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Its d federal high court in abuja and nt d Appeal court as stated by d poster dats y i was a bit sceptical initially. i hope that the court of appeal will uphold d verdict of the federal high court so dat dis clown in abia goverment house backed up by odeolechukwu will be kicked out so dat Abia state will nt experience another 4yrs of waste like d1 Nigeria as a whole will experience when odeolechukwu rigs himslf bck 2d treasury excepts ders a divine intervation, i guess ders nothing much we can do abt it. GOODLUCK ABIA STATE.

abia state is the share of Dr. Orji Uzor kalu and since T. A. Orji is no longer loyal to him, the Ngwa ppl are smiling bcs that is where uzor kalu is picking his cndidate.