By Chidi Nkwopara, Owerri

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri, sacked Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and declared Sir Frank Ibezim as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the rescheduled Imo North senatorial bye-election. The judgment, which was delivered less than 24 hours to the bye-election, was read by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam.

The Court of Appeal roundly faulted the November 6, 2020, judgment that sacked Ibezim and announced Araraume as the candidate of APC, having won the party primary election.

It was the considered opinion of the Judge that the revalidation of Ibezim’s candidacy, was in tandem with the Electoral Act, having won the APC party primary, way back in September 2020. Justice Onyemenam ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately enlist Sir Ibezim’s name, as the APC candidate for the bye-election. It would be recalled that the bye-election is expected to hold today, in the 64 wards across the six Local Government Areas that make up the senatorial zone. They include, Okigwe, Obowo, Ihitte-Uboma, Isiala-Mbano, Ehime Mbano and Onuimo local government councils.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/12/appeal-court-sacks-ararume-reinstates-ibezim/

These crooks raised and fed in Abuja have turned the politics of my great Imo state into royal rumble for scammers, cultists and murderers.. This is the same state that gave Nigeria the great Dee Mbakwe, most probably by far the best governor of the second republic. Since Mbakwe left, federal forces have made it a point of duty to flood political positions in the east with questionable characters, solely to re-tard development and progress in the east in general! Ararume was nobody in imo State state politics until one Tony Anenih his in-law, shooed him into mainstream politics, his obvious questionable character notwithstanding! Ohakim was imposed by Obasanjo and Rochas was a product made in the north! It has been a perennial struggle in imo state to untangle the beutiful state from the vicious grip of the federal manipulators.. The insistence on the part of the Nigerian federal government to impose questionable characters as representatives and administrators in the east, utilizing all the state coercive instruments in their disposal, is one of the main reasons why it's becoming obvious that there's no bright future for the east in Nigeria..

Rugaria:
These crooks raised and fed in Abuja have turned the politics of my great Imo state into royal rumble for scammers, cultists and murderers.. This is the same state that gave Nigeria the great Dee Mbakwe, most probably by far the best governor of the second republic. Since Mbakwe left, federal forces have made it a point of duty to flood political positions in the east with questionable characters, solely to re-tard development and progress in the east in general! Ararume was nobody in imo State state politics until one Tony Anenih his in-law, shooed him into mainstream politics, his obvious questionable character notwithstanding! Ohakim was imposed by Obasanjo and Rochas was a product made in the north! It has been a perennial struggle in imo state to untangle the beutiful state from the vicious grip of the federal manipulators.. The insistence on the part of the Nigerian federal government to impose questionable characters as representatives and administrators in the east, utilizing all the state coercive instruments in their disposal, is one of the main reasons why it's becoming obvious that there's no bright future for the east in Nigeria..

Rochas was not a product of the north.

For years, many easterners made Rochas out to be the astute businessman who probably should be president of Nigeria.

He was Governor of Imo State under the canopy of APGA in his first term.

Learn to swallow your mistakes rather than always looking for scapegoats outside.

confusion everywhere