Uzodinma, Ararume Face-Off Lingers As EndSARS Violence Disrupts Ruling

By GWG Staff

The prospects of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Imo North Senate bye-election has become clouded after judgment in a court case instituted on the party’s candidature was clouded by the #EndSARS violence.

An Imo High Court was to give judgment on Tuesday, October 27 in the case filed by proxies of Mr. Frank Ibezim restraining the All Progressives Congress, APC from presenting any other person apart from Ibezim as the candidate of the party.

The same court process was to also restrict the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC from accepting any other candidate apart from Ibezim.

The case is upon the intense political rivalry between the camp of Governor Hope Uzodinma and his party rivals, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume and Senator Rochas Okorocha.

The party primaries had ended in a dispute with a section of the committee which conducted the party primaries endorsing Ibezim. Another faction of the panel endorsed Senator Ararume as the party’s candidate.

GWG gathered that proxies of Ibezim had moved the court to restrict the party from forwarding any other name apart from Ibezim who is backed by Uzodinma and the minister of state for education, Emeka Nwajiuba.

Ibezim’s adversaries had contended that he was not duly cleared by the party’s screening committee for the primaries upon alleged issues.

The issues are, however, now before the courts for resolution.

The judgment expected on Tuesday it was learnt has now been postponed to another day.

Meanwhile, the political rivalry between the Uzodinma/Nwajiuba camps and the Ararume/Okorocha camps continue to fester.

It is alleged that Governor Uzodinma is bent on stopping Ararume from returning to the Senate on the fear that he could team up with Okorocha in the legislative house to make governance difficult for him in Imo.

The fight between the two camps it is feared could lead to the party not presenting a candidate for the election.

Senators Ararume and Okorocha were absent at a stakeholders’ meeting convened by the governor last Monday to address the #EndSARS crisis.

The election earlier scheduled for October 31 has now been shifted indefinitely following the recent spate of crisis in the country triggered by the #EndSARS campaign.

Send Us A Press Statement Advertise With Us Contact Us

 And For More Nigerian News Visit GWG.NG