2027: Okorocha ‘never contested’ Imo West primary – Uzodimma’s aide
- ✦“When the court, in its own documentation, the processes filed in court, showed that both INEC, the authority that supervised, APC committee that conducted, all denied the documents His Excellency Rochas Okorocha relied on.
- Onuegbu said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the committee that conducted the primary both rejected the documents Okorocha relied on before the court.
- By Omeiza Ajayi – ABUJA The Deputy Chief of Staff to Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, Chief Enyinna Onuegbu, has said former Governor Rochas Okorocha never took part in the All Progressives Congress APC primary for Imo West Senatorial District, which a Federal High Court in Abuja has now ruled he won.
- “When the court, in its own documentation, the processes filed in court, showed that both INEC, the authority that supervised, APC committee that conducted, all denied the documents His Excellency Rochas Okorocha relied on.
He added that the Supreme Court had held that “when forgeries are alleged, what the court is left to do is to put the parties to the witness box.”
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Onuegbu said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the committee that conducted the primary both rejected the documents Okorocha relied on before the court.
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By Omeiza Ajayi – ABUJA The Deputy Chief of Staff to Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, Chief Enyinna Onuegbu, has said former Governor Rochas Okorocha never took part in the All Progressives Congress APC primary for Imo West Senatorial District, which a Federal High Court in Abuja has now ruled he won.
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Onuegbu, a lawyer, spoke on Friday evening on Arise News, monitored in Abuja, in a right of reply to Okorocha, who appeared on the same programme about 24 hours earlier.
