Tribunal sitting in Ihedioha/Okorocha case starts
HEARING in the Imo State governorship elections case between the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Governorship Rochas Okorocha, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opponent, Emeka Ihedioha, began on Monday at the Election Petitions Tribunal in Owerri.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner, Imo State Public Complaints Commission, Ambrose Ugboaja, says the agency has received about 2,000 petitions from retirees, individuals, agencies and corporate bodies since 2014.
He told the correspondents chapel over the weekend in Owerri that a greater percentage of the petitions (1600) were from retirees in the state, some of which complained about financial discrepancies.
The Ihedioha is challenging Okorocha’s victory at the polls and urging the tribunal to upturn it. At the maiden hearing before Justice David Wyom, lead counsel to the first respondent, APC, Adeniyi Akintola (SAN), argued that his client was not served at its headquarters in Abuja.
However, lead counsel to the petitioner, Mike Ahamba (SAN), urged the tribunal to proceed with the hearing, having had a pre-hearing session, where parties had been put on notice through questionnaire, which was and dully answered.
Wyom ruled that it did not matter where the parties were served once dully served. However, he reserved ruling on whether the second to 36th respondents were either served
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