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Supreme Court docket: PDP members accuse Ihedioha of plotting Onyereri’s disqualification

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Jones Onyereri and Emeka Ihedioha

Jones Onyereri and Emeka Ihedioha

The management of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) in Orlu, Imo, has accused its governorship candidate on the 2019 governorship election Emeka Ihedioha of plotting the elimination of Jones Onyereri because the celebration’s candidate for the Imo West senatorial district election.

Mr Ihedioha was faraway from workplace as Imo governor on January 14, 2020, by the Supreme Court docket.

Making the allegation in an announcement barely three days after the Supreme Court docket nullified the first election of the celebration in Imo West senatorial district, which produced Mr Onyerere as its candidate for the parliamentary election, leaders and stakeholders of the celebration in Orlu disclosed that they’d vehemently declared Mr Ihedioha persona non grata for masterminding the celebration’s loss.

“Following the Supreme Court docket verdict nullifying the election of Dr Jones Onyeriri as candidate of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP)for the Imo West senatorial district, leaders and stakeholders of the celebration in Orlu zone have vehemently declared Chief Emeka Ihedioha persona non grata for ‘masterminding’ the loss,” stated the assertion.

The Supreme Court docket judgment signifies that PDP is not going to take part within the February senatorial election.

The celebration’s management alleged that Mr Ihedioha, by his actions, had put the hassle of the celebration in Imo West to waste.

The Supreme Court docket declared the first election invalid as a result of it was held in Owerri, the Imo capital, moderately than Orlu, the senatorial headquarters of Imo West.

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