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The Federal High Court Abuja, on Monday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the National Chairman, APC, not to conduct any congress in Imo until Aug. 21.

The court also ordered the plaintiffs, Sen. Osita Izunaso, Sen. Ben Uwajimogu , Mr Mathew Omegara, Mr Hilary Ekeh and Mr Patrick Uzoukwu to maintain status quo until Aug. 21

The vacation judge, Jutice Babatunde Quadri gave the order following an application by Mr Ahmed Raji, (SAN), counsel to the plaintiffs.

Raji had asked the court to order that all parties be restrained from conducting any primaries in the state, ward or local government until the next adjourned date of the suit.

He said that if such and order was not made and the defendants went ahead to conduct the primaries before the next adjourned date, the suit would become an academic exercise.

Raji told the court that although the defendants were duly served with an order of court stopping them from conducting congresses on July 20, they went ahead to conduct the congresses.

The senior lawyer argued that consequently, on July 23, the plaintiffs filed a motion ex parte praying the court to set aside the purported congresses.

He said they further asked the court for an order of injunction restraining APC and its chairman from recognising and swearing in those purportedly elected at the congresses.

“The court, however in its wisdom refused to grant this order and ordered us to put them on notice, and we did and duly served all processes on them but there has been no response from them.’’

Responding, counsel to the defendants, Mr Oladipo Okpeseyi , (SAN) told the court that he had just been briefed about the matter.

According to Okpeseyi, all I could achieve as at today is to file a memorandum of conditional appearance.

Okpeseyi alluded to the fact that his clients had been unable to file the proper responses owing to the “political maneuvering” they had recently been faced with including the mass defection from the party.

“The executive members of the party have not been around so the best we could do is to file a memorandum of conditional appearance.

“We want to crave the indulgence of the court to give us more time within which to file our processes.’’

He prayed the court for an adjournment to enable him file the necessary processes.

The plaintiff’s counsel, however, disagreed with Okpeseyi’s reason for his inability to file his processes saying such reasons were not permissible in law.

According to him, this unusual and unheard-of oral application of the defendant has no basis and should be rejected because the alleged defection he alluded to happened after they were served with processes.

Justice Quadri in a short ruling, ordered all parties in the suit to maintain status quo and not conduct any primaries until the next adjourned date.

‘’All parties are restrained from conducting any primaries in the state, ward or local government until Aug. 21.’’

He awarded a cost of N10,000 against the defendants for not filing their processes within the stipulated time and adjourned the matter until Aug. 21 to allow the defendants regularize their processes.

In the originating summons, the plaintiffs have formulated four questions for the court to determine.

One of which is that having regard to an appeal pending before the Court of Appeal in Owerri, whether INEC has the power to monitor the state, ward and local government congresses of the APC of July 20.

“Whether the APC and its chairman have the powers to lawfully schedule or conduct the state, ward and local government primaries in the state without 21 days’ notice given to INEC in line with mandatory provisions of Section 85 (1) of the Electoral Act, 2010.’’

Consequently, the plaintiffs are asking for the following reliefs;“ A declaration that having regard to the appeal pending before the Court of Appeal in Owerri, INEC has no power to monitor state, ward and local government congresses of the APC of July 20.

“A declaration that the state, ward and local government congresses of the APC purportedly scheduled to hold in Imo on July 20 is illegal, unlawful, null and void and a gross abuse of court process.

“An order of injunction restraining INEC from monitoring state, ward and local government congresses of the APC purportedly scheduled to hold in Imo on July 20.

“An order nullifying or setting aside the state, ward and local government congresses of the APC scheduled to hold or which held in Imo on July 20.

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centoke30:
So what is PDP trying to establish then?

They are establishing nothing but poo.waste of money and timw

Waste of time .u guyslost woefully.goodnyte PDP

Okowa is a disgrace to delta state

And u couldn't do it in 16 yes

Waste of time
Edo APC won
Ondo APC won
Ekiti APC won
Osun APC will win
PDP is dead in Sw.they should go and hug transformer
The electoral act says u must establish electoral violence or irregularities polling unit by polling unit before an election can be invalidated

2019 election result
Pmb=20,000,000 vote
PDP=10,000,000
Sdp=3000000

If it is shared each person will get #1,344. The op is just as daft as a goat

See them here,he married a biafran lady

We the Vaseline crew will be there

A governor that cannot pay salary

A governor that cannot pay salary for 8months

U think it is that easy

Kewtt:
Painment

Anu ofia,NNE gi there

Nigeria like fake news

All hand on pdp DICK to squashed it to pieces just laughing pdp

The Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Monday elected a new state chairman, Daniel Nwafor.

The party also elected other members of the state working committee.

The election, which took place at the Imo International Convention Centre, Owerri, was monitored by the representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission from Owerri office.



Governor Rochas Okorocha was in attendance, but his deputy, Eze Madumere, senators Benjamin Uwajumogu, Ifeanyi Araraume, Hope Uzodimma, Osita Izunaso and other top members of the party were absent at the Congress.

The party had, on Friday and Saturday, elected wards and local government area officers amidst heavy security presence.

The congresses held after an Owerri Federal High Court ordered fresh congresses in the state. The court had nullified the one earlier conducted by the Hilary Eke-led state working committee members.

Chairman of the Congress Committee, Adesayo Ojo, expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the exercise, noting that “it complied with the extant rules of the party.”

Una never start to wail ooooo,.pmb till 2023.

betterford:
IF WIKES ISLAMIZATION WILL REMOVE THE EMPTY BRAIN FROM ASO VILLA THEN SO BE IT

APC occupies 24 states,so how will they remove pmb

Votes from kano will neaitralize it

So pathetic..........

Fake news

Gradually okorocha is winning,okorocha for senate 2019,nwosu for governor 2019. Okorocha for president 2023

I thought they said its fake news

Itzpetersv:
Apostle Johnson Suleiman of the Omega Fire Ministries, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on New Media, Lauretta Onochie for attacking him over the outcome of the Ekiti State governorship election.

Suleman said Onochie was dragging the Presidency “into the gutters. ”

In a prophecy, Apostle Suleman had said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would emerge winner of the just concluded Ekiti State election.

But, the reverse was the case as the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Kayode Fayemi was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Reacting, Onochie described the Cleric as not being in talking terms with God.

In a tweet, Onochie wrote, “Pastor who is not in talking terms with God but who continues to lie with God’s name.”

However, Suleman described the remark by Onochie as a poorly-executed hatchet job and barefaced lies.

A statement by the Omega Fire Ministries Spokesman, Mr. Phrank Shaibu said ”It is common knowledge that the quality of media management in the nation’s presidency has taken a nosedive since President Muhammadu Buhari took office, but the presidency hit a new low on Sunday when Onochie threw all pretences to the wind to rubbish a man of God with her unguarded vituperations and outright spewing of hate.”

He said “even if a primary school pupil had written that tweet, the lies told therein could not have been so recklessly blatant and so devoid of any shred of professionalism.”

The statement noted that Onochie lifted the purported prophesy from the wall of a facebook user who has since pulled the post down after discovering that it was false and unverifiable.

Shaibu said, “Isn’t it unbecoming that a presidential spokesperson is propagating an unverified report? Apostle never made the purported statement being credited to him at any fora and I challenge her to provide a contrary source to the one I just mentioned or produce any shred of evidence to support her claim.

”But we hasten to say that we sympathise with Lauretta Onochie as we know that life itself has not been fair to her. Our appeal is that she should not vent her frustration on the church. The other day, it was the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that she attacked, today, it is Omega Fire Ministries. Who knows which Church is next?

“After careful examination, we think that Lauretta Onochie is burdened by the challenges of life and is gradually going off her rocker. If not, why should anybody in his or her right frame of mind, not even a presidential aide, sit down in one corner of his or her room, pick up a fable on social media and then begin to broadcast it on social media?”

Shaibu said contrary to Onochie’s assertion, Apostle Suleiman is a “non partisan man of God, whose constituency is the church and has people of different political divides as members.”

“Our major point of departure from the Buhari-led administration is the senseless massacre of harmless Christians across the country and Omega Fire Ministries will not keep quiet until the day Christians and Nigerians are at large consider their country as a safe haven,” the statement said.

http://www.vondanews.com/ekiti-election-apostle-suleman-fires-back-at-presidency-over-failed-prophecy/

Nairabet pastor

The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress Party APC has announced new dates for the conduct of Ward,Local Government & State Congresses in IMO state.

The National Chairman of the Party Comrade Adams Oshiomhole made this known in Abuja on Tuesday.

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha also confirmed the Development while addressing cross section of the party members aduring strategic meeting held @Nicks Banquet hall,Government House,Owerri.

The schedule for the elections are as follows;

-Ward Congress-July 20/2018,Local Government Congress July 21/2018 while the State Congress on July23/2018.